On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 04:39:30PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well, I have an old P100 w/32MB of ram, and it's just too slow run a regular > (RH) linux workstation distro, even with blackbox. This machine is connected > to my local lan. Would my main machine, a dual 500MHz celeron, have enough > horsepower to be an app server? It can run 3 X servers, though I only really > use one at a time by switching back and forth. > > Would my P100 machine have the horsepower to be an X terminal? If so...
Sure, your main machine would do well, I think. I have a P200 MMX/128Mb, P125/40Mb, P100/32Mb, and 486/40/16Mb (and no harddisk). I have RH7.1 installed on all except the 486, and I use it as an X terminal. It doesn't even have a hard drive installed, so I boot muLinux off floppies and run the SVGAlib version of the VNC viewer. VNC is somewhat slow to display things, but it works quite well. I've considered using the P100 as an X-terminal, but never quite worked it out. Instead, I install Redhat on it with the minimal things I need, and then simply run most everything off the P200 over ssh. Sometimes I'll even run my window manager on the P200. A positive side effect is that if my main machine goes down, I have a functional machine which I could get online with to get help, check my mail, etc. If you get the P100 working as an X-terminal, I'd be interested in knowing how you did it. > is there an X terminal 'distro' I should use? There are plenty of smaller distributions (I just spent a couple of weeks downloaded Spinix, to see how it would work on my 486...then my hdd crashed so the 486 is without one), but... > can I just take an RH7.2 distro and use a custom install to get the > functionality I need? If so, what packages would I need to install? Since your machine has enough memory to install RH, that's probably what I'd do. If you know what you are doing, I think you could install a minimal subset with only the functionality you need. Regards, Ben -- Ben Logan: ben at wblogan dot net OpenPGP Key KeyID: A1ADD1F0 Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. - Voltaire
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