Forwarding using my correct posting address Paul Varner wrote: > On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 07:21:26 -0600 "MARTINSON, GREGORY" wrote: >> I am going to be bullheaded and take an old machine Pentium 166 with >> 48 Megs of memory and make it work as a home server (samba, cups and >> ftp as well as maybe a music player). I won't be installing tons of >> software on it, but I do want to eek our every last ounce of >> performance from an old beast. > > Personally, I would avoid X all together and do everything from the > console or ssh into the box. I have a Pentium 233 that I setup to do > similar things and the performance for X was horrible regardless of > window manager (Of course KDE/Gnome were the worst of the worst). > Recently, I rebuilt the box and left X off of it entirely and I am > not regreting the decision at all. For a music player, mp3blaster is > a good ncurses based player. > > Regards, > Paul
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