Sorry, I simplified a bit. I do telnet for simple tasks, but I'm playing around with Linux for other things as well. This is a home network, and we were using Wingate on a Windows 95 machine as internet gateway. The all-family frustration this was generating became my excuse to build a Linux box over Christmas and revisit my unix-hacking roots. I went for KDE because I'm getting to old to re-learn all that vi finger-work. Now if I could just get DNS to work properly... - but that's another mailing list.
Tim > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jim George > Sent: Friday, 12 April 2002 21:02 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: info: single install xfree86 + minimal cygwin? > > > If you SuSE Linux box is only acting as a fileserver, gateway > why run X on > it? If you make it run at runlevel 3 then it only needs the > command prompt > and you won't need xfree86 under cygwin to access it. > > Indeed you don't anyway, simply ssh or telnet to Linux box. > > Jim > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tim Huckvale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 10:31 AM > Subject: RE: info: single install xfree86 + minimal cygwin? > > > I'm interested in a minimal cygwin / xfree86 package since I'm only > using it to control my SuSE Linux fileserver and internet > gateway which > sits in a corner with no keyboard or monitor. I connect via > xdm and run > KDE desktop. The total cygwin and xfree86 installation takes up 100 > Mbyte disk space, which seems excessive. > ...
