Also a Tandy 1000HX here. Eventually it was upgraded to include a 300 baud modem, 640KB of ram, and the second 3.5" floppy. As far as I can remember, the only other thing available for that monster was a clock. Whew.
What I loved about that machine was this:
My math teacher at the time had an IBM clone at home, and I gave him a copy of a game called Thexter and told him that I really liked the sound on this game. (Now for those of you who don't remember this game, during the initial load and any interludes, it would play Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven). He commented the next day that he thought it was a travesty to play Beethoven on a system that was capable of polyphonic sound. I was surprised (being the newbie that I was) that he wasn't impressed. He came over to my house after school and I loaded the game on the 1000HX and he started to freak out about the polyphonic sound on that thing.
This seems a little off base to me. We have several Gentoo servers (6 or 7, I can't remember the exact number) at work, and I use gentoo on my work desktop, laptop, and personal desktop. (Oh I shouldn't forget running Gentoo on my Xbox). Someone in my department also uses Gentoo on his work desktop as well as his personal desktop. I personally have been running Gentoo since it was at release 1.2 (with a few month haitus whilst I learned *BSD). The Xbox aside, I have never had an emerge -u world break a a well-maintained box.
Now, I have a friend who has a remote dedicated Gentoo server who adamantly refuses to run etc-update and his box breaks every time he runs emerge -u world.
For my money Gentoo is the answer. Weekly emerge sync's & upgrades (look at what you are upgrading), consitent usage of etc-update, and a good thorough understanding of Gentoo's USE and ARCH settings will keep a Gentoo box in good working order.
At work, when we have a new service to provide, we look at the following OSs in order
1. OpenBSD 2. Gentoo Linux 3. Mac OS X 4. Windows.
All of our external services run from OpenBSD, most of our internal services run in Gentoo (even a predictive dialer) or OS X, and a total of 3 servers run windows.
When security is really important however, we don't even consider Linux, opting instead for OpenBSD.
Some of the apps that they are having problems with were written by users in the 1960's and 70's. Veyr Specific apps written in either old asembly or ancient prog languages
I have read thru many of the comments, and a couple of people have mentioned the fact that in order to do a thin client solution, servers would be needed, whihc would add to the cost of this entire project. Personally, If I were heading up this kind of project, I would seriouisly consider using a CD based distro. Setup the entire hard-drive as swap, or Linux Terminal Services. Then for the server end, clustering a few few of the higher end machines.
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Also a Tandy 1000HX here. Eventually it was upgraded to include a 300 baud modem, 640KB of ram, and the second 3.5" floppy. As far as I can remember, the only other thing available for that monster was a clock. Whew.
What I loved about that machine was this:
My math teacher at the time had an IBM clone at home, and I gave him a copy of a game called Thexter and told him that I really liked the sound on this game. (Now for those of you who don't remember this game, during the initial load and any interludes, it would play Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven). He commented the next day that he thought it was a travesty to play Beethoven on a system that was capable of polyphonic sound. I was surprised (being the newbie that I was) that he wasn't impressed. He came over to my house after school and I loaded the game on the 1000HX and he started to freak out about the polyphonic sound on that thing.
This seems a little off base to me. We have several Gentoo servers (6 or 7, I can't remember the exact number) at work, and I use gentoo on my work desktop, laptop, and personal desktop. (Oh I shouldn't forget running Gentoo on my Xbox). Someone in my department also uses Gentoo on his work desktop as well as his personal desktop. I personally have been running Gentoo since it was at release 1.2 (with a few month haitus whilst I learned *BSD). The Xbox aside, I have never had an emerge -u world break a a well-maintained box.
Now, I have a friend who has a remote dedicated Gentoo server who adamantly refuses to run etc-update and his box breaks every time he runs emerge -u world.
For my money Gentoo is the answer. Weekly emerge sync's & upgrades (look at what you are upgrading), consitent usage of etc-update, and a good thorough understanding of Gentoo's USE and ARCH settings will keep a Gentoo box in good working order.
At work, when we have a new service to provide, we look at the following OSs in order
1. OpenBSD
2. Gentoo Linux
3. Mac OS X
4. Windows.
All of our external services run from OpenBSD, most of our internal services run in Gentoo (even a predictive dialer) or OS X, and a total of 3 servers run windows.
When security is really important however, we don't even consider Linux, opting instead for OpenBSD.
Just my $.02
Some of the apps that they are having problems with were written by users in the 1960's and 70's. Veyr Specific apps written in either old asembly or ancient prog languages
I have read thru many of the comments, and a couple of people have mentioned the fact that in order to do a thin client solution, servers would be needed, whihc would add to the cost of this entire project. Personally, If I were heading up this kind of project, I would seriouisly consider using a CD based distro. Setup the entire hard-drive as swap, or Linux Terminal Services. Then for the server end, clustering a few few of the higher end machines.