[Thinstation-general] RE: [Thinstation-developer] Thinstation 1.0 feature list request

[Miles R. <mr...@we...>]

Hi Mike,

Yeah, I am curious to see how PXES managed to do that.  Looking at the smbd
and nmbd I have compiled (samba 2.0.7) they are around 1.3 meg, with no
supporting libs, just the binaries.  You might be able to do it with 800k
compressed.  Wonder want version of samba he was using.

As for the GUI, thought this might be away of enticing people, people love
GUIs, personally, I prefer the config file.  Just thinking about attracting
more people.  Although you could debate that the people who prefer GUIs
wouldn't be the people able to cope with a thinstation anyhow. (no offence
to anyone meant).  Just a thought anyhow :o)

Cheers

Miles

-----Original Message-----
From: Kim Michael Eriksen [mailto:km...@ke...]
Sent: Tuesday, 20 May 2003 09:37 a.m.
To: Thinstation-Developer (E-mail);
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Subject: Re: [Thinstation-developer] Thinstation 1.0 feature list
request


Hi guys

> Feature list request for 1.0.
> 
> 1) Update to kernel 2.4.21 when it is released
> 2) Include preempt kernel patch
> 3) Update to XFree 4.3

None of these interest me, but I don't mind at all.

> 4) GUI Front end to build.conf.  Do we need this?  Any volunteers?  One
> thing I would like is that is it doesn't have many dependences, i.e. I
don't
> think it should be done in perl etc...  I won't be doing this as I don't
> have time, so it won't get done unless there is a volunteer to take it up.

This is a complete waste of time. It takes a lot of effort to make a GUI
but it does NOTHING an ascii conf file doesn't already do! The very
limited resources should be spend more wisely.

> 5) USB Storage device support
... and preferable in connection with supermount and a samba server. I
know I already got a reply from Miles that the samba server is huge (8+
MB), but according to Paolo PXES can do it with ~800 kB (disksize). I
think this is much more interesting to spend time on than a GUI.

> 6) 16 meg ram disk limit
Good idea. The present 8MB limit can be exceeded if you add enough
protocols and drivers. And let's face it - few very weak pc are still
alive and these may be well served by Frank's more minimalistic approach
with the next Netstation (when it appears).

Mike


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