[plug] Custom Knoppix or Custom CD Distro (IRC)

[Cameron Patrick]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 07:09:16PM +0800, Nick Bannon wrote:
| It's more than possible, and Knoppix would be a better base to work from
| than most.

Another option that may be even simpler would be to set up LTSP on the
server and run the others as thin clients.  LTSP is quite simple to
install, and once you've done that you can download Etherboot floppy
images (or CD images) to run on the clients.  The system is likely to be
quicker than running everything off a CD too, at least if my experience
with Knoppix is anything to go by.  Either way it may be an idea to
rip out the hard drives as Nick mentioned.

You could then set up KDM to automatically log in as a certain user, and
configure the .xsession to start up a window manager (something simple,
e.g. wmaker or metacity?) and an IRC client (ksirc?) in a loop,
something like:

metacity &
while true; do
	ksirc --server whatever.net
done

Cameron.