Re: Small computer to run a GUI?

2010-05-14 Thread Liontaur
Thanks for your tips and suggestions all. I ended up going with a mini itx atom solution with a SSD drive to keep the heat down some more. I'll let you know how it goes since i'll be putting FreeBSD on it. It's going to be a web browser mostly so we'll see how it goes. Thanks again. Mark

Re: Small computer to run a GUI?

2010-05-14 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Liontaur liont...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your tips and suggestions all. I ended up going with a mini itx atom solution with a SSD drive to keep the heat down some more. I'll let you know how it goes since i'll be putting FreeBSD on it. It's going to be a

RE: Small computer to run a GUI?

2010-05-10 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
. Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 16:07:26 +0100 From: cwhi...@onetel.com To: millenia2...@hotmail.com CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Small computer to run a GUI? Nice but doesn't have a VGA port (but does have HDMI) http://www.fit-pc.com/web/fit-pc2/fit-pc2-specifications

Re: Small computer to run a GUI?

2010-05-10 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Sean Cavanaugh wrote: . Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 16:07:26 +0100 From: cwhi...@onetel.com To: millenia2...@hotmail.com CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Small computer to run a GUI? Nice but doesn't have a VGA port (but does have HDMI) http://www.fit-pc.com/web/fit-pc2/fit-pc2

Re: Small computer to run a GUI?

2010-05-09 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Andrew Gould wrote: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Liontaur liont...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: Sounds like you want a netbook. -- Adam Vande More I was more thinking of something without a monitor, keyboard or mouse. I

Re: Small computer to run a GUI?

2010-05-09 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Liontaur wrote: Hi folks, I'm looking for a small (and relatively inexpensive) computer to run a GUI, I don't much care if it's KDE or Gnome or one of the others. Just so that I can browse the Internet using Firefox (unfortunately I may need to look at some flash). So they need to be able to

Re: Small computer to run a GUI?

2010-05-09 Thread Robert Huff
per...@pluto.rain.com writes: Sounds a bit like a ShivaPlug. Or something almost identical. Thanks. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Small computer to run a GUI?

2010-05-09 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
-- From: Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 8:03 AM To: Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Small computer to run a GUI? Andrew Gould wrote: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 11

Re: Small computer to run a GUI?

2010-05-09 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Sean Cavanaugh wrote: -- From: Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 8:03 AM To: Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Small computer to run a GUI? Andrew Gould wrote

Re: [#24488139] Re: Small computer to run a GUI?

2010-05-09 Thread Chris Whitehouse
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2010-05-09 Thread Leslie Jensen
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2010-05-09 Thread Gary Kline
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Re: Small computer to run a GUI?

2010-05-08 Thread Andrew Gould
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Liontaur liont...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: Sounds like you want a netbook. -- Adam Vande More I was more thinking of something without a monitor, keyboard or mouse. I want to put it in a

Re: Small computer to run a GUI?

2010-05-08 Thread Robert Huff
Andrew Gould writes: Sounds like you want a netbook. I was more thinking of something without a monitor, keyboard or mouse. I want to put it in a cupboard and not worry about it. With a netbook i'd probably have to leave it open (or else it would go into suspend mode or

Re: Small computer to run a GUI?

2010-05-08 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 7 May 2010 21:37:53 -0700, Liontaur liont...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: Sounds like you want a netbook. -- Adam Vande More I was more thinking of something without a monitor, keyboard or mouse. This is

Re: Small computer to run a GUI?

2010-05-08 Thread John Levine
well. I went checking out Soekris but couldn't really see if they offer a GUI, the models I looked at didn't have a VGA port though. I was hoping for something about 9 inches square and three inches thick, or smaller. Soekris users consider the lack of VGA to be a feature, since they make the

Re: Small computer to run a GUI?

2010-05-08 Thread John Levine
I was more thinking of something without a monitor, keyboard or mouse. I want to put it in a cupboard and not worry about it. Sounds like a Soekris. Their net5501 has a 500MHz CPU, 512MB RAM, serial ports, Ethernet, USB, compact flash, SATA, mini-PCI, and no video. It runs FreeBSD. The case is

Re: Small computer to run a GUI?

2010-05-08 Thread Polytropon
On 8 May 2010 16:13:14 -, John Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote: If you want to run X stuff, my advice would be to run a X server on your laptop to make it act like an X terminal, and run the applications on the Soekris over the network. That's how X was designed to be used. Works great. In

Re: Small computer to run a GUI?

2010-05-08 Thread perryh
Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: I seem to have lost the bookmark, but within the last 18 months or so I saw an article for something that might work here. It ran Linux, so hopefully it would run *BSD. It had a 1 ghz processor, and 512 mbytes of RAM. The package was a

Re: Small computer to run a GUI?

2010-05-07 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Liontaur liont...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, I'm looking for a small (and relatively inexpensive) computer to run a GUI, I don't much care if it's KDE or Gnome or one of the others. Just so that I can browse the Internet using Firefox (unfortunately I may need

Re: Small computer to run a GUI?

2010-05-07 Thread Liontaur
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: Sounds like you want a netbook. -- Adam Vande More I was more thinking of something without a monitor, keyboard or mouse. I want to put it in a cupboard and not worry about it. With a netbook i'd probably have to

Re: Small computer to run a GUI?

2010-05-07 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Liontaur liont...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds like you want a netbook. -- Adam Vande More I was more thinking of something without a monitor, keyboard or mouse. I want to

Re: Small computer to run a GUI?

2010-05-07 Thread George Davidovich
On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 06:41:16PM -0700, Liontaur wrote: I'm looking for a small (and relatively inexpensive) computer to run a GUI, I don't much care if it's KDE or Gnome or one of the others. Just so that I can browse the Internet using Firefox (unfortunately I may need to look at some