Installation CD for TelemetryBox / Gentoo Linux

To use this CD you need to boot from it. Press CTRL-ALT-DEL to reboot your system. If tbe BIOS is capable of booting from the CD then the installation menu should appear. Most BIOSes boot behaviour can be configured. Reconfiguration might be necessary to be able to boot from the CD.

Open Source software can also run directly under Windows operating systems. Contact us for more information if you have that need. The TelemetryBox Corporation specializes in Open Source software available for all computing platforms. We help you to become independent of predatory licensing schemes. Migration away from expensive, not well supported software is possible.

Features of the TelemetryBox/ Gentoo Installation CD

• Easy installation without the need of special knowledge about Unix/Linux
• Hardware Autodetection
• Menu driven installation
• Menu driven operation of the TelemetryBox
• Live CD: Most of the Software can be operated without installation directly from CD.
• User friendly KDE environment
• Office Application Package: KDE Office
• Multimedia Applications: Media Players for Video and Audio
• Email clients both GUI based (kmail, evolution) and text based ( pine).
• Mozilla Web Browser with a variety of plugins.
• AbiWord word processor with the ability to read and write Microsoft Word Documents..
• Live Chat applications.
• Peer to Peer tools.
• Support for secure and encrypted communications (ssh etc).
• Framebuffer operations mode with high speed browser, irssi etc.
• System can be tailored to CPU/Hardware available using the Gentoo Linux distribution tools.
• Large selection of additional software avaialble from the Gentoo Site.
• Newest Open Source Software. Easy upgradability for new releases.
• All Software freely available and redistributable under the Open Source Licenses.

Minimum Requirements for Installation

• Intel Pentium compatible CPU or better (>100Mhz)
• 1 GB of free space on the Harddisk
• CD Reader with a BIOS capable of booting from CD
• 64 Meg of RAM
• Dialup Connection
• VGA compatible console

Recommendations

• CPU >1 Ghz
• 4 GB of free space on the harddisk
• 128 Meg of RAM
• Ethernet Card/Wireless Card
• XGA compatible console (1024x768)
• Mouse
• Sound support

References:

1. The TelemetryBox Project
2. The Gentoo Project
3. The TelemetryBox Corporation
4. Lameter International Corporation

(C) 2002 The TelemetryBox Corporation Christoph Lameter