Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 20:13:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: dscheidt@enteract.com (David Scheidt) Cc: freyes@inch.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD lightness: Free/Net/Open Message-ID: <199908022013.NAA06953@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.990731123111.30568A-100000@shell-2.enteract.com> from "David Scheidt" at Jul 31, 99 12:36:17 pm
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> > Also what would me a MINIMUN usable amount of memory to run X. 16MB? > > These are computers other departments were throwing out so I don't > > think they have much of a budget to go around upgrading memory. > > I ran X on a 16MB P60, with a 512KB video card. Don't forget to > configure your swap space. It works. There are things like > occaisonal pauses while the machine swaps. This was running almost > everyting locally. If you were running things off of a remote > compute server, i would expect it be much better, expecially if you can > avoid running things like Netscape. I used to run a lab full of AT&T WGS boxes net booted as X terminals. They were 386-SX/16's with only 4M of memory each, and 512k of video RAM. This was back in the 1.1.5.1 days, using a stripped kernel and netboot.exe in a script that gave you the option of Windows 3.11 or an X terminal at boot time. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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