At 2003-07-26T19:03:09Z, Micha Feigin <michf@math.tau.ac.il> writes: > On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 15:55, Kirk Strauser wrote: >> *Thin* client. As in, *no* clients running locally. > mozilla takes about 24M with nothing loaded and evolution somewhere around > 22M. For clarity's sake, *no* clients will be run on the laptop. I anticipate using xdm to log into a remote X display and run everything on a much beefier machine elsewhere; only the physical display will be running on the laptop. > As a command line, look into running busybox instead of the regular bash > etc, and skip the getty for login. Interesting idea, thanks! > You could try and run the X terminal standalone with no command line to > save some memory. > a 2.2 kernel completly stripped could work. I worked with a mixed 2.2/2.4 > embeded kernel and it did start up at around 1 or 2 megs ram with busybox > as a command line (don't remember exactly), a custom inittab etc, but it > takes a lot of work. That certainly sounds promising. I'll take a look at that. > Also look at the strip kernel options for embeded kernels for 2.6. I don't > know how much memory it saves though. You should look at something in the > embeded direction, I think debian has something in that direction but I > don't know. I takes a lot of configuration if you are up for, and still I > really doubt that you will be able to do much usefull work localy since > vim alone takes around 3 M, gvim 4.5M. Yep. It'll be nothing more than a display unit. -- Kirk Strauser
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