From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 8 16:44:34 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 5A999106566C for ; Sat, 8 May 2010 16:44:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx02.qsc.de (mx02.qsc.de [213.148.130.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1816B8FC0A for ; Sat, 8 May 2010 16:44:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r55.edvax.de (port-92-195-118-129.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.118.129]) by mx02.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id E39B81EA81; Sat, 8 May 2010 18:44:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r55.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r55.edvax.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id o48GiWmO001528; Sat, 8 May 2010 18:44:32 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 18:44:31 +0200 From: Polytropon To: John Levine Message-Id: <20100508184431.e050b118.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20100508161314.36778.qmail@joyce.lan> References: <20100508161314.36778.qmail@joyce.lan> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: amvandemore@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Small computer to run a GUI? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 May 2010 16:44:34 -0000 On 8 May 2010 16:13:14 -0000, John Levine 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, ...