From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 11 02:15:12 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78A4E37B401 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 02:15:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from archimedes.rsn.bth.se (archimedes.rsn.bth.se [194.47.145.245]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 734BD43F85 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 02:15:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from defacto@home.se) Received: from jarl.home.se (as4-3-5.paa.hs.bonet.se [217.215.11.194]) by archimedes.rsn.bth.se (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h6BA0oFU015461; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 12:00:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from defacto@home.se) Message-Id: <5.2.1.1.0.20030711110523.02f0fdd0@archimedes.rsn.bth.se> X-Sender: jalle@archimedes.rsn.bth.se (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.1 Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:16:58 +0200 To: Cotton , freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org From: Jalle In-Reply-To: <1D0EFCEF-B352-11D7-9854-000393D42F48@mac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: FreeBSD/XFree questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 09:15:12 -0000 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" >