On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 21:29, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > X alone should be fine in 16MB, even recent versions. I'd recommend > using XDMCP for session management if you have a dedicated machine it > can talk to. For most session managers (gdm, kdm, xdm) there's a single > line in some config file to enable XDMCP. Then you just have the client > machine query the server for a session and you get a login screen just > like you'd have on the server. You can even configure the server to > allow remote connections to it's X font server and the client to get > it's fonts from there. ><snip> > I'd like to try this myself someday. When you get it working tell us how > it went.
Evan McNabb and I got X running quite well on an old SparcStation ELC (about 33 mHz, 32 MB RAM, no hard disk). Was quite fun to work with. We net-booted linux and used an nfs-exported directory as root. It was only a 1-bit xserver, and a bug in vncviewer and GTK made all the graphics seem inverted (apparently they didn't bother to find out which of 1 and 0 was white and which was black). The graphics are surprisingly crisp and clear, much sharper than any color crt. We set the ELC up to us XDMCP to query a remote X session from my other box, and it was not a bad x terminal, even with such petty specifications. Michael > > - Andrew > > Ross Werner wrote: > > I was looking more to just run X as a "thin client" and run apps over the > > network. Would 16MB of RAM still be painful for that? > > > > ~ Ross > > > > On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Michael Golden wrote: > > > > > >>I used to run an old version of Slackware with fvwm2 for the window > >>manager on a 486 DX2 66. I think it had 32MB RAM and it ran decent but > >>YMMV. Don't even expect a DE or big apps like Mozilla or OOo to work on > >>it though. NS4 was the browser I used at the time on that box and it was > >>dog slow. > > > > > > > > ____________________ > > BYU Unix Users Group > > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > ______________________________________________________________________ > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
