Simple concept: I have been running ramdisk Linux distros whan at home to compatibility check them. And waiting to make a selection based on which distro will best handle solving the below scenario.

Is it practical to use a slow wireless notebook thru remote sessions at reasonable speed? The "Host" and notebook for those remote sessions is defined below as "Pertinent Details" Above all else- Web browsing that's not painful. Primary Need there. Dead last but would be nice: Remote word processing NOT Google docs but local with forms printing. As in to access/update a campground reservation program and docs for the same property.

Pertinent details:

I am now the owner of a CF-25 Toughbook armored notebook. P166,32 mb ram, 2gig hd. Not a screamer. But folks have had X and wireless working on these.

80% of my "at home" weekend is spent within local wifi of my home. Home link to "outside world" is DSL at 1.34down/793 up. That 793 being averaged but for the phase 2 of this concept posibily an issue.

Home hardware is: a dual core 2.88ghz class machine that I can get 2gig of ram in. 200gig ATA drive currently XP only but getting a Linux distro pending this current issue's results. I have an 80 gig SATA drive to dedicate to this project if booting from a dedicated drive makes this easier.

Oren Beck

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