From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Aug 2 13:15:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE41F14C20 for ; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 13:15:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA05790; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 13:13:16 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd005696; Mon Aug 2 13:13:07 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA06953; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 13:13:02 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199908022013.NAA06953@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: BSD lightness: Free/Net/Open To: dscheidt@enteract.com (David Scheidt) Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 20:13:02 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freyes@inch.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "David Scheidt" at Jul 31, 99 12:36:17 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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