On 4/2/06, Jack Coates wrote:
Robin Bowes wrote:
lnxguru wrote:
If you want to practice your Linux skills you could use telnet/ssh for
command line or consider using a remote X server. Cygwin and
Hummingbird(commercial) have X servers for Windows. The power and RAM
you'll need for
Geoff B wrote:
I'm surpised that nobody's mentioned NX (or freenx). I'm not
particularly experienced with linux, so maybe it's just a different
form of remote X, but it worked flawlessly for me when I set up a
MythTV box recently. It seems pretty efficient, even ssh-tunnelled
through my
Jack Coates wrote:
Robin Bowes wrote:
lnxguru wrote:
If you want to practice your Linux skills you could use telnet/ssh for
command line or consider using a remote X server. Cygwin and
Hummingbird(commercial) have X servers for Windows. The power and RAM
you'll need for this will
lnxguru wrote:
The performance of X is actually very good from my experience. VNC is
definetly easier. Both will be negatively impacted by busy desktops.
Of course with Linux/Unix you don't have to run full desktops --
WindowMaker of Fluxbox are lightweight. Telnet/ssh are even lighter.
I'm
The performance of X is actually very good from my experience. VNC is
definetly easier. Both will be negatively impacted by busy desktops.
Of course with Linux/Unix you don't have to run full desktops --
WindowMaker of Fluxbox are lightweight. Telnet/ssh are even lighter.
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lnxguru
Agreed, but the OP also wanted to use his SS to learn Linux. I rarely go
graphical on my SS and I use NFS for accessing my music files.
But this thread does seem to be getting away from the OP and he seems
to be elsewhere.
Rich
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lnxguru
rudholm wrote:
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meh. Each has its place. VNC's performance is horrible, but it is
easier
than X. It's probably a point of interest that the most popular page on
my website is this one:
http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/remote-x-cygwin-howto
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Jack at Monkeynoodle dot Org: It's a
dangerous_dom Wrote:
Want to keep the cost to a minimum, as it's only for slimserver +
increacing my Linux skills. Appart from a large HDD, what would people
recommend as the minimum specs?
Thanks, Dom.
What codec (flac, mp3, ogg, etc.) will you use? Drive size keeps
increasing and is
Robin Bowes wrote:
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Horrible compared to what?
I run it on a LAN (100Mb/s) and performance is like-I-was-on-the-machine.
I run it over the 'net (256kb/s uplink) and performance is perfectly usable.
In what circumstances do you find that native X performs better than VNC?
R.
MS-RDP
Pat Farrell wrote:
lnxguru wrote:
The performance of X is actually very good from my experience. VNC is
definetly easier. Both will be negatively impacted by busy desktops.
Of course with Linux/Unix you don't have to run full desktops --
WindowMaker of Fluxbox are lightweight. Telnet/ssh
stinkingpig Wrote:
rudholm wrote:
...
meh. Each has its place. VNC's performance is horrible, but it is
easier
than X. It's probably a point of interest that the most popular page
on
my website is this one:
http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/remote-x-cygwin-howto
--
Jack
rudholm wrote:
...
No, null-event alerting/polling is simply not part of how RFB (the
protocol VNC uses) works, it's not a question of whose implementation
we're considering.
New feature? Not at all. VNC runs independent of any video hardware
on the server, always has. vncserver requires no
I can't add much about hardware requirements -- P II or better and 128MB
RAM is _more_ than enough for most home set ups. You don't have to start
with a huge hard drive if you use LVM but it is usually better to go
with fewer drives from a power/heat perspective. And to repeat earlier
advise --
lnxguru Wrote:
Cygwin and Hummingbird(commercial) have X servers for Windows.
Xming is a free X implementation for PC - maybe built on Cygwin - not
sure.
Habs
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lnxguru wrote:
If you want to practice your Linux skills you could use telnet/ssh for
command line or consider using a remote X server. Cygwin and
Hummingbird(commercial) have X servers for Windows. The power and RAM
you'll need for this will depend on what else you're going to do with
this
Robin Bowes wrote:
lnxguru wrote:
If you want to practice your Linux skills you could use telnet/ssh for
command line or consider using a remote X server. Cygwin and
Hummingbird(commercial) have X servers for Windows. The power and RAM
you'll need for this will depend on what else you're
stinkingpig Wrote:
Robin Bowes wrote:
lnxguru wrote:
If you want to practice your Linux skills you could use telnet/ssh
for
command line or consider using a remote X server. Cygwin and
Hummingbird(commercial) have X servers for Windows. The power and
RAM
you'll need for this
I started off with the intention of building a 'cheap as chips' music
server for my SB3 but (as usual with me) I've ended up completely
rebuild and upgrading my main PC instead. Problem was is was SOOO
noisy that I could stand to leave it switched on all the time.
I've now got a good spec PC
If you do choose to go the cheap route, check out retrobox.com. A
friend just bought a PIII there for $64.
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NWP
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hifisteve Wrote:
Can't emphasise enough the need for having a duplicate of all your
ripped music, I'm using x2 320Gb WD drives with RAID1. The though of
having to re-rip 700 cds would having me looking for a train to jump
under
As has been said here in other forums, *don't* rely on
JJZolx Wrote:
Do some research if you can on the system's motherboard and make sure
that it can read large hard drives.
I've been wondering about this issue myself as I consider buying some
older hardware to put into use as a server. Researching the mobos can
be tedious and still not turn up
This is always a fuzzy area for me. It seems that I've installed hard
drives before that were not supported by the bios by installing Max
Blast for Maxtor hard drives. I think that you can usually break past
the barriers with the right software.
Incidentally, I've installled a Promise ATA100 PCI
I built a system recently that is working just great - performace is
fantastic - I only have about 12,000 songs though - recorded in 230kbps
mp3. I'd say that this was a deluxe system - but you might take the
specs and put in a smaller disk drive and/or a slower CPU and you'd
still be fine:
I
I put together a mini-itx box, although mine runs XP (already had a
license) there are Linux builds.
Fanless MII - approx £70 - ebay
http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/mini_itx/epia_m2/
512MB - £25 ebay
160GB Disk - Samsung Spinpont approx 70-80
Also had a PCMCIA wireless card hanging
dangerous_dom Wrote:
Want to keep the cost to a minimum, as it's only for slimserver +
increacing my Linux skills. Appart from a large HDD, what would people
recommend as the minimum specs?
Minimum means different things to different people. You could get it
to run on ridiculously low spec'd
dangerous_dom Wrote:
Want to keep the cost to a minimum, as it's only for slimserver +
increacing my Linux skills. Appart from a large HDD, what would people
recommend as the minimum specs?
Thanks, Dom.
Go for it. I've a 2-ish Ghz P4 here with a cheap 40-odd quid ASUS
motherboard, and I
If you're going to be doing any bit-rate limiting on playback, you'll
need more CPU than if you didn't (since the server has to decode and
simultaneously re-encode your music in real-time). But aside from
that, you really don't need much.
--
rudholm
Mine is serving just under 10k tracks (it should hit 10k sometime in the
next few days though if the post office cooperates..) with a P2/400 and
256M of RAM. I am using mysql (for no real reason other than I know it
and can play with it... I use it to figure out what doesn't have
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