Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:16:58 +0200 From: Jalle <defacto@home.se> To: Cotton <cottonlt@mac.com>, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD/XFree questions Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.0.20030711110523.02f0fdd0@archimedes.rsn.bth.se> In-Reply-To: <1D0EFCEF-B352-11D7-9854-000393D42F48@mac.com>
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At 20:45 2003-07-10 -0700, Cotton wrote: >Hey all, > >First off, my *nix experience=85 I=92ve run a few different distros on the= mac=20 >and PC just checking stuff out, but never full-time =AD definitely still a= =20 >newbie. I have an old P166 here that I want to set up as a headless file=20 >server (mp3s, divx, documents)/web server/sendmail et al=85 it won=92t be= hit=20 >too hard, anyway. You're at the right place, FreeBSD is your friend in this matter! =3Do) >Will an old P166/64mb 66mhz SDRAM run FreeBSD 5.1 with X/KDE/Gnome ok? Or= =20 >should I forget about the GUI and just control it through ssh? If I were you, I'd think twice about X. It's hard to tell exactly how it=20 will run. But you can always try it just for fun, you'll learn a lot! I=20 know I did! =3Do) As for Gnome/KDE... Nonono!!! I'm sorry, but these monsters are slow enough= =20 on my PIII 800 with loads of memory! Try a window manager instead (ie, not= =20 a desktop environment, just the wm), some highly recommended are blackbox=20 and fluxbox. Controlling it via SSH is easy if your X experiments should fail. And=20 effective! >I was hoping XFree would be useable, so I could run some apps remotely=20 >using Apple=92s X11 on OS X. Which leads to question #2=85 how does one run= an=20 >X application remotely like that, and have just the GUI on the local box?= =20 >The machines would be on the same subnet 192.168.1.x, with the FreeBSD box= =20 >on an Ethernet interface and the Powermac (1.25 ghz duallie) on 802.11g. If you are not interested in running a full desktop from your server (XDMCP= =20 I would guess), I'd suggest you try X over SSH (ssh -X) Google around and you will find some useful stuff on this. I can't tell you= =20 how well/bad it interacts with OS X though. >Thanks for any suggestions! When I did what you are attempting to do now I really enjoyed it, and I=20 learned bigtime useful stuff! Good luck! /J >Cotton >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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