From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261152AbTJQWNt (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2003 18:13:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263625AbTJQWNt (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2003 18:13:49 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:27286 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261152AbTJQWNq (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2003 18:13:46 -0400 Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:13:43 -0700 From: cliff white To: "M. Fioretti" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RULE Tinderbox clients for the kernel Message-Id: <20031017151343.2361995d.cliffw@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20031017202422.GM4943@inwind.it> References: <20031017202422.GM4943@inwind.it> Organization: OSDL X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.6 (GTK+ 1.2.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 22:24:22 +0200 "M. Fioretti" wrote: [ snip ] > > > Either way, please send me your desired .config - i can and should > > build a size test into the tinderclient code. > > Er.... this is the sad note. I am pretty good in userland, but much > more ignorant here. What I can tell is which kind of boxes would be > used and how, but translating that to the proper .config requires the > help of you gurus. We will gratefully test whatever you ask and > report, within our bandwidth and CPU power limits, but this is why I > sent my original message to the LKML. > > We need to use boxes with i386 or greater, 16+ MB RAM, disk space from > 3/400 MB upwards in basically two ways (depending from the end user > needs and the actual hw available) > > low load servers for modern printing (cups) firewall (iptables) email, > web > > desktop with kdrive and functional, yet not bloated applications for > school and soho use worldwide. This means, feature wise: > > digital signature with GPG > email, spreadsheet, word processing (abiword, gnumeric) > web browsing (flash? maybe, not essential) > non ASCII alphabets > something else which I will certainly remember one picosecond after > hitting the send button... > Okay, i will try a few samples and send the result direct to you. cliffw > > -- > Marco Fioretti m.fioretti, at the server inwind.it > Red Hat for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/en/ > > Don't think that a small group of dedicated individuals can't change > the world. it's the only thing that ever has. (read on /.) > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >