It is a point of sale machine. I don't know what else you can get for it. Nathan > > From: Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 2006/08/11 Fri AM 11:30:23 GMT > To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: IBM POS Machine and Fedora > > On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 05:26 +0000, Nathan J Crubel wrote: > > I was wondering what Fedora would run great on an IBM POS machine with > > a Cyrix 166 and 32mb of memory. I am looking on running a Java > > Application. Any help you can switch my way would be great. > > I wouldn't think it possible. I was under the impression that Java is a > bit resource hungry. > > I once shoe-horned a very cut down version onto a 266 MHz PII with 64 > megs of RAM, but it was a text-only system used just as a very simple > webserver. Now it's got a lot more RAM, and runs in graphical mode. > Though it's still mainly used as a webserver, and sometimes as a > jukebox. Starting things going is the main problem with such a slow > machine, once they're up and running it's quite nice. > > Not sure whether you mean point-of-sale, or piece-of-shit, machine, with > your POS acronym. But it's probably not too hard to find a better PC to > do your thing with, rather than try fighting with a very low spec box. > > -- > (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) > > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. > I read messages from the public lists. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
