>I am currious if it is possible to load a minimal Linux installation,
>without the X-Windows server, and use VNC graphically.
Er? Sort of. The Xvnc VNC server for Linux IS an X server (just to a
framebuffer/virtual bitmap instead of a real one, X doesn't care). You still
need the X libraries, etc.., to run X apps. And GTK, QT, LessTiff, etc...
whatever widget libraries are required by your app.
>I could try it but I thought it would be preferable to see if this is
>even possible before spending any time on this issue.
Depends what you mean by small? <300Mb Yes. Fit on a floppy with X, no way.
>If it is not possible, then, it would definitely save me from wasting
>time.
Yep, it probably would.
>My goal is to have as little a distribution as possible with only the
>necessary server services loaded (SSH, MAIL, VNC) and requiring only a
>small amount of RAM (let's say 16MB) but naturally without the XFree86
Why X? Why not use something like Webmin and admin with a web browser,
requires alot less (just perl) on the server side, no X libraries. Or since you
have ssh why not use the curses (thats "text"/"terminal") interface to
Linuxconf, it's menu driven, etc...
>I heard of very minimal implementation of VNC and even some discussion
>about an embedded version. This is why I am looking into this.
Sure, but to host UNIX client apps it need to speak X11, and X11 isn't small.
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