In an amazing twist, the company which makes the computer he installed Linux on actually will put Linux on them for you! Talk about leet! http://www.ultimatetechnology.com/technology/linux . hp4
[I purchased a Pentium-based POS system FOUR YEARS AGO and installed two extra Ethernet cards (to give three ports), and installed RedHat to make it a router and web server. It was complicated, just like... installing RedHat on any other machine. Which is to say it wasn't complicated.]
Though X is "network transparent", I've found that most of the current software (aka gnome, aka kde) is horribly bloated in it's X communications. Not optimized to reduce round-trip requirements, not optimized to reduce duplicate drawing, not optimized to railroad as much as possible.
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In an amazing twist, the company which makes the computer he installed Linux on actually will put Linux on them for you! Talk about leet! http://www.ultimatetechnology.com/technology/linux . hp4
... installing RedHat on any other machine. Which is to say it wasn't complicated.]
[I purchased a Pentium-based POS system FOUR YEARS AGO and installed two extra Ethernet cards (to give three ports), and installed RedHat to make it a router and web server. It was complicated, just like
Though X is "network transparent", I've found that most of the current software (aka gnome, aka kde) is horribly bloated in it's X communications. Not optimized to reduce round-trip requirements, not optimized to reduce duplicate drawing, not optimized to railroad as much as possible.