[TriLUG] yet another theoretical question

[John Franklin]

Do you need your company laptop and the Linux box to be operational at 
the same time?  If not, get yourself a big fat key-fob.  Like 512M big 
and drop the distro of your choice on it.  Boot from USB.  Do your 
thing.  So small, it fits in your pocket, and no new software installed 
on the laptop.

jf
On Feb 10, 2005, at 10:52 PM, Greg Brown wrote:

> Also it would be nice if this device could act as a syslog server to 
> gather error messages from routers, firewalls, etc that need to be 
> reconfigured.  Now that I think of it I also need snmpget and 
> snmpwalk.  These don't have to come RPM'ed, apt-get'ed, yum'ed or 
> whatever, though it would be nice if they did, but as long as I can 
> compile them I'll be happy.
>
> I'm starting to think that a thinkpad is as small as I can go, and TD 
> has them for $500.... but there's got to be SOMETHING out there that 
> is small, yet powerful enough, to fit my needs.. keep in mind, it 
> doesn't have to be fast.  I'm not playing games here, just working.
>
> I also need PERL::DBI to interact with mysql.
>
> Greg
>
> On Feb 10, 2005, at 10:21 PM, Greg Brown wrote:
>
>> The topic this time: small laptops.  Very small.  Tiny.
>>
>> My latest project has me traveling all over the great beyond doing 
>> large network migrations and I have to travel with a company standard 
>> image laptop.  The word on the street is it is very unwise, and may 
>> be a career limited move, to load non-standard software.
>>
>> Okay, so there it is.  No problem.
>>
>> Only I need Linux and my standard network migration toolsets of the 
>> following: nmap, mysql, php, perl, ssh, telnet (darn those old 
>> routers), and a few other tools, but not many.
>>
>> I am looking for a small, make that microscopic, laptop which has the 
>> above tools plus a SSH server as well lightweight PHPable web server. 
>>  The laptop doesn't need to be fast, just small.  As small as 
>> possible.  I'd like to plug it into the network and have the web and 
>> SSH servers come online.  Then I can ssh in and do my dirty work.
>>
>> The Sharp SL-C700 (http://www.dynamism.com/zaurus/) is the right 
>> size, but I'm not sure it can do what I want.
>>
>> Luggers, what are your thoughts?
>>
>> ..... back to a West Coast conference call with some weird-ass island 
>> in the middle of the Pacific... love the follow the sun work! :)
>>
>> Greg
>>
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