On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Nicholas Metsovon <nmets...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Just out of curiosity, from what I understand, there are a number of window > managers and at least one desktop (xfce) out there that, from what I > understand, don't need X to operate. There's also FreeNX, that I thought > someone said doesn't need X. And I think it was about seven or eight years > ago, most of the major distributions switched briefly from Xorg to XFree86, > and then went back to Xorg. > > If Xorg is a significant part of the problem here, could any of these > technologies be used to make a (software) windowing server to feed the > display instead of Xorg? > > I'm just thinking out loud here. I wouldn't know where to begin with this.
Or how about just a light-weight/optimized X Server? A group I used to volunteer with used RULE linux http://rule-project.org/ when we would tread low memory box's for community members circa 2002. As I remember RULE stood for "Run up2date Linux Everywhere" and used RHL's anaconda for hardware detection. Rule would work with clients with 8 to 12 Mb ram and used a variation on Tinyx. Its founder Marco Fioretti must be a master of X in tiny spaces and would be a great resource if there was ever a move to go this direction. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
