From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 8 16:13:20 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E13E106564A for ; Sat, 8 May 2010 16:13:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prvs=073777b021=johnl@iecc.com) Received: from gal.iecc.com (gal.iecc.com [64.57.183.53]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9D628FC14 for ; Sat, 8 May 2010 16:13:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 61477 invoked from network); 8 May 2010 16:13:18 -0000 Received: from mail1.iecc.com (64.57.183.56) by mail1.iecc.com with QMQP; 8 May 2010 16:13:18 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple; d=iecc.com; h=date:message-id:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:cc:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=k1005; olt=johnl@user.iecc.com; bh=NZ//g3EViRZt2A5BBeiyrVYfIwdTnUlZ6JyiJ8T2q1g=; b=DHUkFLE+rkAhfJ1lMTH94A+y4QeNPJpN7LirSG6ZeK6ysXXuHHFocr1oBnoJvFjd9r+UjAI2Ytk0b2H6JG2xAtWrUEH/dFiHI7vPUX1a39I9GyAXTaLvjCoTpF+xh+WuWUA7l8i2u8x/vciG+n8aCRitk7EhcOjSF4LizYKi4sg= Date: 8 May 2010 16:13:14 -0000 Message-ID: <20100508161314.36778.qmail@joyce.lan> From: John Levine To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Organization: X-Headerized: yes Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Cc: amvandemore@gmail.com Subject: Re: Small computer to run a GUI? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 May 2010 16:13:20 -0000 >> 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