I need some recommendations...

[Cervantes]

Hi All,
Alright, I've decided it's time to scrap Windows in our warehouse... right now, we've got 1/2 dozen stations set up, older 266 machines. Their entire purpose in life is to telnet to our mainframe server, and giving people extras like solitare, email, MSIE, pretty colours, etc, is just asking for trouble. Yes, I know I should lock it all down, but I can geek out here!

What I'm looking for is recommendations for a Linux variant to use down there. Something small, fast, easy to lock up (you boot the PC, it connects to the mainframe, that's all you can do). Whenever I ask around for recommendations, people start spouting off about these 5-6CD sets, and that's just too darn large. It doesn't need fantastic hardware support, as all the stuff down there is old... the only thing that's a sticking point is needing a driver for the Zebra 105SE Label Printers we have...apart from that, it'd be ideal if it fit on one CD, so I could make it bootable and reimage machines as required.

If anyone knows of a variant that would handle this, I'd really appreciate the input. Thanks!

 

[AP81]

Slackware 9.0. Runs excellent on older machines, and fits on one disk. It has always been my favourite and is very stable.

 

[BobMCT]

When you set up these stations create a ".profile" file in the login user's home directory. In that file execute the command to load the emulator and login to the host. Follow that with the exit command. This way, when they login they will be connected automatically. And, when they logout they will be disconnected automatically.