Well, headless or head-only can be done. Remote X is always the best way to go for me anyway. With music/movie/etc playing locally, and everything else remote.
My current desktop box at home has got 64 MB of ram and no-hard disk; it's only a P2 266, but it plays movies and music with ease, even without. But I enabled swap recently, anyway.. But I'm running OpenBSD on it currently, mostly because it's so much more effort to get Linux going remotely. I do want to compare performance though. On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 02:59:29PM +1300, Brad Beveridge wrote: > The CPU is probably enough (mandrake optimises for i686) to run > lightweight window managers, but I'd doubt the RAM would be enough to > get much performance in while running X. It would be fine for a > headless box.. > > Brad > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ben Aitchison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 2:58 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: MANDRAKE 9.2 > > > > > > what kind of specs do modern distros like this need? For use > > on an evaluation box that is.. would a 64 mb pentium pro be > > sufficient? > > > > and any idea if you can do network installs, with the cd > > mounted in a different box? > > > > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 10:39:04AM +1300, Paul Swafford wrote: > > > Available from e-caf for the usual fee :) > > > > > > Can be seen in action... > > > > > > Regards > > > > > > Paul Swafford > > > > > > (Manager, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arts Centre) > > > (Level 2/28 Worcester Boulevard, Christchurch, NZ) > > > (ph/fax +64 3 3656480 www.e-caf.com) > >
