From: dfox@hip-hop.suvl.ca.us (David Fox) Subject: Re: X terminals: Suggestion for projects like SLS, MCC, etc. Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1993 03:59:18 GMT
Peter MacDonald (pmacdona@sanjuan) wrote:
: In article <1993Jun11.123208.1166@taylor.uucp> mark@taylor.uucp (Mark A. Davis) writes:
: >ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:
: >
: >>I can think of one interesting application for Linux: to turn cheap
: >>low-end PC hardware into dedicated X terminals.
: >
: >As I have said in other postings, I think this is a good idea.
: >Although X terminals will still probably be cheaper, much faster, easier
: >to maintain, Linux/Clone would sove problems for existing machines. And if
: >prices continue to drop on clone hardware while video cards get faster and
: >cheaper, this could start to compete.
: Unless you have scads or RAM (16Meg at least) there are problems running
: X and Linux without swap space. Basically, you could be faced with a
: locked up machine every so often. Therefore, it is best not to eliminate
: the HD all together.
Agreed that you would need the swap space even for the X terminal. The
idea doesn't sound doable, but it raises another possibility. On my
system, I don't have a whole lot of disk space left, after installing all
of SLS a,b,c, & t series + some extras. I doubt that I have enough disk
space to install X-Windows.
However, it MAY be possible for me to set up the thing as an X-terminal, since
there's another system accessible via high-speed modem (USR HST) and I could
call in and run the X programs remotely, and I wouldn't need excessive disk
space or memory, because I would be using part of the other system's memory
and the disk would already have most of what I wanted to run.
The question that follows is approximately what of the SLS disks do I need
to d/l and install to accomplish this, and how much disk space would it
require? It seems to me that it wouldn't require all of SLS X-series to
do this.
I probably could do the same thing by using Desqview/X, but let's discount
that as a possibility, PLEASE. :)
: Peter
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