LinuxICE

volospian said:
*shrugs* I've been administering Windows servers for many years, and I have never had a server crash that cannot be traced to third party code. And I never see the need to reboot them every week or whatever either. Much that is said about windows is said by those that have little experience of it, like many things really, TVR's for example.

However, I would still rather run a "leaner" OS than a minimum standard Windows (or a minimum standard Linux) install for a car PC, if one is available.
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So build yourself a custom minimal install of XP then. Quite a lot of bumf you can actually strip out of a custom installer.

Take a look at nLite.
 
I'd have thought so yes.

That LinuxICE looks really REALLY shoddy.

I'm downloading it now to play with on a VM, but it just looks incredibly badly designed.
 
jellybeard999 said:
Windows XP SP2 cut down with nLite I would have thought would be the best option ?
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Not in my opinion.

Because soon you'll come to install/run something, and find that you've disabled/removed one of the services or file requirements it needs - and you're into a case of playing "hunt what's missing"

With a full-blown XP SP2 install (which, really, doesn't run much slower at all, especially when only running a couple of bits of software, no AV/firewall etc) you just know that it's going to work in 99.9% of cases.



Can you tell I'm running a full-blown XP SP2 install on mine?
 
Confused said:
Not in my opinion.

Because soon you'll come to install/run something, and find that you've disabled/removed one of the services or file requirements it needs - and you're into a case of playing "hunt what's missing"

With a full-blown XP SP2 install (which, really, doesn't run much slower at all, especially when only running a couple of bits of software, no AV/firewall etc) you just know that it's going to work in 99.9% of cases.



Can you tell I'm running a full-blown XP SP2 install on mine?
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Depends how much knowledge you have of the apps your running and windows I guess. There are many things that take up tons of space and slow windows down that are barely used. Still, if it works fine with full XP, then its preference at the end of the day :)
 
What sort of startup times should we expect to get from a car pc?

I hate the really long startup times especially with long bios self tests which you cannot change, does the via eden chipset suffer from this?
 
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