I might be confused, as is often the case, but doesn't xfce use X11? I thought it was just a lightweight desktop, but still a GUI using X. As far as a simple server goes, a P4 should be plenty of horsepower. Back in the day, I used 386s for a lot of simple server duties. Of course that was running Red Hat 5.1 I think. If you're just running a server and using CLI, you don't even need xfce. Just stay in runlevel 3 and never get to the X stuff. Unless drive space is tight, (unusual these days) I would think you could just leave all those X packages alone. They won't run or use any resources unless you start them.
Also, I have no experience with Slackware, when you install the OS, don't you have a server install option that does not install all the X stuff? Michael On Dec 13, 2016 01:04, "Michael C. Robinson" <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm running slackware 14.2 on a very simple server. The box is only a > Pentium 4, so I decidedly don't want X Windows and I want to save > space. I started out with slackware 14.1 and xfce I believe. I am > manually removing via pkgtool everything X11 that is obvious and a few > other things, but manual is dangerous. Is there a better way with > slackpkg to catch those remaining libraries that can be removed safely > to save even more space? > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
