Date: 8 May 2010 16:13:14 -0000 From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: amvandemore@gmail.com Subject: Re: Small computer to run a GUI? Message-ID: <20100508161314.36778.qmail@joyce.lan> In-Reply-To: <z2i6201873e1005071847zdc4fccaem14603744f674b502@mail.gmail.com>
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>> well. I went checking out Soekris but couldn't really see if they offer a >> GUI, the models I looked at didn't have a VGA port though. I was hoping for >> something about 9 inches square and three inches thick, or smaller. Soekris users consider the lack of VGA to be a feature, since they make the systems smaller and less power hungry. If you want to run X stuff, my advice would be to run a X server on your laptop to make it act like an X terminal, and run the applications on the Soekris over the network. That's how X was designed to be used. Works great. If you really really want to run X on your Soekris, you could plug in a mini-PCI video card, which I see you can get for about $45, but I'd recommend not running an X server process on your server hardware. R's, John
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