Re: Nightstand Terminal

[Barrett Dillow <bdillow@gmail.com>]

I may have missed it but has anyone mentioned the Audrey for a 
"nightstand" solution?
It runs QNX, ethernet or wifi connectivity, small, (pen) touchscreen, 
infrared keyboard, no hard drive, 200MHz or 333MHz processor, palmpilot 
syncing, email, blah blah blah

they're neat.
AudreyUpgrade store
http://www.misn.com/~toybox/
Audrey Hacking discussion and software repository
http://www.audreyhacking.com/index.php

apologies if this is a repeat.

tallison@tacocat.net wrote:

> > *snip*
> >    
> >
> > > Through LTSP (which works very nicely with Debian) you could configure
> > >      
> > a
> >    
> >
> > > client workstation to run a X-window session from the big, loud, hot
> > > workstation/server you want to monitor.  But the hardware could be
> > > configured in the BIOS to run without the hard drive or to spin
> > >      
> > down the
> >    
> >
> > > hard drive after one minute.
> > >
> > >      
> > Interesting ... is there a way to spin up/down the hard drives from
> > the os?
> >
> >
> >    
>
> Not with LTSP.
> You do it in the BIOS.
> But then you don't need a hard drive.
>
> LTSP can boot from:
> Hard drive
> Floppy disk
> PXE Network boot
> NIC ROM
>
> http://www.ltsp.org/
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