Re: Public PC

On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 08:58:30PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 03:06:10PM -0500, Dave Walker wrote:
> > I hope to place a PC running Etch in our small (tiny, actually)
> > airport building for use by pilots. The PC will be used to access
> > perhaps 10 web sites (plus or minus) over a DSL connection and to run
> > a few utilities to show GMT and a calculator and maybe a few
> > additional applications. The box will also serve as a real-time data
> > collection platform and web server for a local weather observing
> > system, so I want to prevent it from being re-booted.
> >
>
> Be very careful. These are two very different applications to put on
> one box. You don't want the weather reports to stop going out if the
> desktop freezes the box. A box that runs X, is almost by definition
> more prone to needing to reboot than one that doesn't. Ditto if you use
> a Desktop environment instead of a simple window manager.
>
> If you really need it to be one box, here's what I would suggest:
>
> Set up the server stuff first.
>
> Setup a chroot for the desktop stuff, one that gets copied when used.

maybe this is a good use for xen. Run the desktop stuff, whatever you decide in a xen dom-u to segregate it from the main server.

A

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