On 02/26/2009 10:53 PM, john wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Nicholas Metsovon <[email protected]> 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 >
I just ran x11perf on a terminal first running LTSP4.2 and then running LTSP5.0. Comparing the two outputs show that the X-Server on LTSP5.0 is marginally slower in most operations, though I don't think it is enough of a difference to notice. I don't think we'll gain much by replacing the X-Server. I can post the results if anyone is interested. The terminal is an LTSP-150, which has a Trident video card, 128Mb of memory, and a 533Mhz VIA Samuel 2 processor. The server is a dual core, dual 3.0Ghz processor system with 2Gb ram running Fedora 5. The only user process running on the server for both runs was x11perfcomp, and nothing was run on the terminal other than x11perfcomp. The window manager was Fvwm2. I started with a full reboot of the terminal in both instances. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
