Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 18:44:31 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> Cc: amvandemore@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Small computer to run a GUI? Message-ID: <20100508184431.e050b118.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20100508161314.36778.qmail@joyce.lan> References: <z2i6201873e1005071847zdc4fccaem14603744f674b502@mail.gmail.com> <20100508161314.36778.qmail@joyce.lan>
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On 8 May 2010 16:13:14 -0000, John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote: > 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. In this case, maybe this product is interesting as well: http://www.axel.com/usa2/prod_ax3.html?mv2_pos=1 It is a terminal (network based), and often called a thin client. I call it a terminal because it is a terminal, and that's nothing bad. :-) > 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. Basically, a 500 MHz system with 512 MB RAM is excellent at running X and applications - I have a P2 / 300 MHz that still is an excellent workstation (e. g. XFCE 3, Opera, XMMS, mplayer, OpenOffice 2), but if you really just want a web browser, a simple window manager (e. g. XFCE 3, Fluxbox, IceWM) is okay; only problem could be the (already outdated) "Flash" stuff... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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