From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 25 07:41:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA28954 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 07:41:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA28947 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 07:41:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA16942 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 15:40:55 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Message-ID: <3541F5F7.843520BE@tdx.co.uk> Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 15:40:55 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 486 - Pushing it for an X-Server? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I have a 486DX4-100 which I would like to use as a 'remote' terminal system for my main machine (which is a dual PPro 200 running 3.0-CURRENT). The 486 has 16Mb of RAM and a Trident (!Chipset forgotten - but supported by SVGA X-Server!) VESA Local bus card. The machine has a 1Gb IDE drive. Is this machine going to be fast enough for me to run as an X-Server display for programs started on my machine machine? I'll probably be using Netscape mainly + a few other programs / utilities... I guess if the software is running on the big one, 16Mb of RAM should be enough for the X-Server? Any comments? (Apart from 'buy a new machine? ) Regards, Karl Pielorz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message