Re: Small footprint window manager
Thus spake Miroslav Mazurek last Mon, May 13, 2002 at 08:27:52AM +0200:
> First of all, disk is IBM SCSI 2GB that seems pretty fast to me and provides enough space.
> The idea is to find how useful is such old box. If it can do some web browsing, mail and some simple word processing I'd be satisfied. No KDE or Gnome. Think of putting few such boxes in some public area and enable people (students) check their mail and surf. I don't want to pay M$ licenses. I thought, if it runs almost smoothly win95 (or 3.11) why not Linux.
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> Secondly, I'm terrified when I see that people are using PIII/Athlon with 128MB and Win XXX for such simple tasks as POS. I don't think that you need GUI to run such SW and I hope that Linux is not going in that direction, too.
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> Thirdly, is there a way to use that box as X terminal?
Yes. Just be mindful of the peripherals (there might be a few
incompatibilities with the hardware) as well as the sanity of execution
(given a low-end machine w/o optimization... it might be a bit useful
but it might not get as far as the clients want to ;)
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