On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 09:18:44PM -0600, rich wrote: > > BTW, is it really even feasible to use a 486 to run X programs like > wordperfect and Netscape off of my pentium? i'm just throwing my $0.02 in here, because it seems like other posters are missing something (of course, it could be just me). It looks like you're planning on running the 486 as the X terminal, with the X clients running on the pentium box and displaying on the 486. In an example, something like this: i486$ ssh pentium -X Password: ******** pentium$ echo $DISPLAY i486:10 pentium$ netscape [ netscape comes up in i486's X server ] i don't see why this wouldn't work well, since most of the processing is on the pentium and there's presumably a fast LAN connecting the two. Potato should work fine on the 486, and is probably more secure than bo (i don't think old versions get security updates for long after a new stable is released). But i'd skip installing emacs on it ;) -- finger for GPG public key.
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