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> I have an old laptop - several years - very slow. It'd be great if I could > simply use it for webbrowsing. First I thought I'd put a light version of > Gentoo and a light desktop manager. Then I thought - can't I just use it > as an X client and have my desktop serve the x session. Has anyone done > this or have any suggestions? I have done this on a pentium 133 laptop with a 1.4G harddrive. I installed gentoo on it. First the basic system(stage3), then mounted /var/portage and /usr/portage/distfiles over nfs, then emerged X 1.4G was too little for large builds like X, hence the mounting over nfs. I also installed distcc, because compiling all of it on the laptop is just too painful :-) More specifically, I didn't *let* the laptop do any compiling, it wouldn't have made a difference. I had a couple of desktop athlon's to help out, and they did a great job. Configuring your desktop system to accept xdcmp request isn't very difficult, there's loads of docs around, just ask if you have a specific problem. My laptop can now run as an xterminal, but also has a light wm installed on it locally. My experience: Use it as an Xterminal whenever possible. It's heaps faster. - -- nessie GnuPG key at http://studwww.ugent.be/~jvdneste/key.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/GC1qLuLJs56ENfYRAmN6AKCSBFCtVKWeLRNr1wUu8dYSY+9AHgCfdqeh T9XPuoHYjF5S+rZcUrEjtOo= =d6Bz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
