HISTORY

Corunix GNU/Linux is a project focused on the creation of a custom distribution, education-oriented, for the classrooms of La Corunna city council educative intranet.

The special circumstances of these classrooms, equiped with PowerPC IBM NetworkStation 1000 thin clients at 200 MHz and with 64 Mb RAM, caused that the city council trusted Igalia, S.L. to carry out the task of extending the lifetime of these machines.

The main problem was adapting the Linux kernel to the special architecture of these terminals, in special, to get a color depth higher than 8 bits. After writing a patch, we got 16 bits depth in frame buffer mode.

Next step was the integration of Corunix with the Windows NT classroom server. In special, the need to serve the distribution by NFS and the unavailiability of a good NFS server for Win32 platform for free. We tested some commercial servers, including CygWin one, but at the end we chose the one bundled with Microsoft Services for UNIX. That forced us to consider the migration from NT to Windows 2003. This has some advantages, like having sound thanks to RDP 5 protocol.

After building a first Debian based version of the distribution at the end of year 2003, the development was forked in two parallel ways:

• A test stage of Windows 2003 + Corunix in primary schools
• A production stage of Windows XP + Corunix in kindergardens

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