[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rick Reynolds wrote: > J F wrote: >> Will VNC run on a laptop with 32MB? >> WOuld be a nice remote desktop in my living room to >> my bedroom linux machine or windows machine. >> >> I've got an old laptop. >> >> I was wondering what the best thing to >> do with it is? >> >> >> It has no CD and only 32MB of memory. >> I found X windows is swapping constantly to disk >> if you move a window on another machine I have.
Best thing to do with that 48 MB laptop is add RAM while it's still available. You're not going to be happy with the X Window System in 48 MB. I installed Sarge on a 100 MHz laptop with 64 MB + 1MB video. Fluxbox was usable with Dillo. Mozilla ran without swapping too much, but only on low-graphics pages. Abiword was usable but slow to launch. The same system with 48 MB swapped constantly, and absolutely wasn't usable. The culprit was the X server itself. My conclusion, 64 MB is the lower limit for XFree86 3.x. Same machine runs Mozilla adequately with 128 MB. At the bottom end, RAM matters more than CPU speed. I wonder if you can use a swapfile on an NFS-mounted remote partition. That might be usable with a Cardbus (32-bit) 100 Mbps NIC. I doubt it would be adequate with a PC-Card (16-bit) NIC. Also wonder if laptops of that era have USB 2.0 so you could swap on a thumb drive. Cameron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
