Mario Lombardo wrote:
>
> That's what I was thinking when I came up with zeros. Still, a really cool
> small CD distro with a floppy for custom config--all configured by webmin.
> Just pop it in, and boom, you're up controlling lp's and USB printers. It
> doesn't sound to far-fetched from a Linksys router/print server, right?
> Hmmm. Maybe I should get on the drawing board. Of course, I'd have to
> actually *learn* programming first :)
>
> I think there's a pretty good market out there for this. Print servers,
> although very small in size, aren't any less then $50(?). For a long time, I
> couldn't find them any less than $100-150. A cheap 486/586 would kick butt,
> and the spooling storage would trump any embedded solid-state device. OK,
> I'll stop dreaming now.
>
Actually, yeah. A LiveCD distro makes sense, now that I think about it.
Hmm.
(ponder ponder)
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