Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 13:20:29 -0500 From: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> To: DerAlSem <DerAlSem@inbox.ru> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X-windows Message-ID: <4072F4ED.6020208@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <328890233.20040405175944@inbox.ru> References: <328890233.20040405175944@inbox.ru>
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DerAlSem wrote: >Hello freebsd-newbies, > > Just wonder, what the minimum requirements for X? Can i run it on > Pentium 200 MMX, 128 RAM, 4 MB video (shared)? Or i shouldn't try? > > > The way I here it is that X can run on nicely on a i386/i486 with as little as 4mb system ram (a stock FreeBSD 5.2.1 system wont boot with anything less then i486/16MB, I could be wrong on this btw) and that it is the Window manager, programs, etc that eat up all the resources. I have X with xfce4 running nicely on a PPro 233, 150MB ram, 8MB ATI card: http://www.xfce.org/
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