From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 31 07:03:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA21497 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 07:03:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA21476 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 07:03:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id QAA21003; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 16:10:23 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199703311410.QAA21003@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: Small Disk Xterminal To: dk+@ua.net Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 16:10:22 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: adrian@obiwan.aceonline.com.au, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199703311146.DAA06808@dog.farm.org> from "Dmitry Kohmanyuk" at Mar 31, 97 03:46:20 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Why? > > What other programs would the straight X server need? Could you fit them > > compressed onto a 1.44mb floppy? > > I don't think that even a compressed server itself can fit into 1.44 floppy. > see: > dog:/usr/X11/bin# gzip -9 < XF86_S3 | wc > 3697 22451 1050627 Actually if you recompile it with only the necessary options... prova# ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/XF* -rwsr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1445888 Mar 28 1996 /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3 -rwsr-xr-x 1 root 10 2668252 Mar 14 1996 /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3.21R -rwsr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1458176 Mar 23 1996 /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA -rwsr-xr-x 1 root 10 2828389 Nov 3 1995 /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA.21R you save a lot of memory. This is a 2.1.R system with various utilities recompiled to fit my needs (including the use of phkmalloc). Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________