On 8 May 2010 16:13:14 -0000, John Levine <jo...@iecc.com> wrote:
> If you want to run X
> stuff, my advice would be to run a X server on your laptop to make it
> act like an X terminal, and run the applications on the Soekris over
> the network. That's how X was designed to be used. Works great.
In this case, maybe this product is interesting as well:
http://www.axel.com/usa2/prod_ax3.html?mv2_pos=1
It is a terminal (network based), and often called a thin
client. I call it a terminal because it is a terminal, and
that's nothing bad. :-)
> If you really really want to run X on your Soekris, you could plug in
> a mini-PCI video card, which I see you can get for about $45, but I'd
> recommend not running an X server process on your server hardware.
Basically, a 500 MHz system with 512 MB RAM is excellent at
running X and applications - I have a P2 / 300 MHz that still
is an excellent workstation (e. g. XFCE 3, Opera, XMMS, mplayer,
OpenOffice 2), but if you really just want a web browser,
a simple window manager (e. g. XFCE 3, Fluxbox, IceWM) is
okay; only problem could be the (already outdated) "Flash" stuff...
--
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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