On Thu 19 Apr 2007 06:10:05 NZST +1200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
In tomorrow's meeting, we'd like to discuss the following topics. Note these are just brief remarks, if you do not understand what I mean, ask me. Please give me your input - and if you have stuff that we should discuss, please tell us as well.
* Smaller systems - what can be done?
The smallest hard disk in the shop is 40GB. Whether a base installs puts 200MB or 700MB on that disk is not something I care about. The problem is elsewhere. For a company I needed to organise automatic production installation of Linux on a mini-small PC used for control and monitoring purposes. Resources are limited, except for oodles of blanknesss on spinning metal. Specifically, there's 128MB RAM. I'd look a fool if I went to management to say I'd like to install opensuse instead of debian, would they pay for double the memory. The problem is the installer memory footprint, not the disk space. No I can NOT enable swap!! * Home environment, 1 fast machine, 1 old box used as X11 terminal with xdmcp login to the fast one. Now the user on slow has a USB stick. Plugging that into slowbox is pointless. Plugging it into fastbox might work - but depending on who logged in first and who knows what else, *all* USB devices plugged into fastbox are either all owned by slowuser or all owned by fastuser. Can this situation be improved? Would "you only need one new computer and a few old cheap ones for your family's computing needs" be a selling point? * USB, and pretty much all hotplug, device mount options suck hamsters with straws. In a galactically big way. That is, there's no way to change them. Not even with a degree in computer science (ok so hacking the source(TM) should do it). This is unsatisfactory. No wait, THIS SUCKS. Can this be improved? * I find that I need to share files with family members all the time. Dito in return. If someone forgets to explicitly set group ownership and permissions on a file (daddy, what's that anyway?), the others can't read it. Ok it's a basic *ix problem for the computer scientists. However, family doesn't care, they Just Want It To Work(TM). Are there solutions? This case must be pretty common. No I don't count "stick it on a stick, because it has M$oft semantics ie no owners or permissions" as a solution. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org