Re: FreeBSD/XFree questions

From: Jalle (defacto_at_home.se)
Date: 07/11/03

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    Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:16:58 +0200
To: Cotton <cottonlt@mac.com>, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org

    At 20:45 2003-07-10 -0700, Cotton wrote:
    >Hey all,
    >
    >First off, my *nix experience… I’ve run a few different distros on the mac
    >and PC just checking stuff out, but never full-time ­ definitely still a
    >newbie. I have an old P166 here that I want to set up as a headless file
    >server (mp3s, divx, documents)/web server/sendmail et al… it won’t be hit
    >too hard, anyway.

    You're at the right place, FreeBSD is your friend in this matter! =o)

    >Will an old P166/64mb 66mhz SDRAM run FreeBSD 5.1 with X/KDE/Gnome ok? Or
    >should I forget about the GUI and just control it through ssh?

    If I were you, I'd think twice about X. It's hard to tell exactly how it
    will run. But you can always try it just for fun, you'll learn a lot! I
    know I did! =o)
    As for Gnome/KDE... Nonono!!! I'm sorry, but these monsters are slow enough
    on my PIII 800 with loads of memory! Try a window manager instead (ie, not
    a desktop environment, just the wm), some highly recommended are blackbox
    and fluxbox.
    Controlling it via SSH is easy if your X experiments should fail. And
    effective!

    >I was hoping XFree would be useable, so I could run some apps remotely
    >using Apple’s X11 on OS X. Which leads to question #2… how does one run an
    >X application remotely like that, and have just the GUI on the local box?
    >The machines would be on the same subnet 192.168.1.x, with the FreeBSD box
    >on an Ethernet interface and the Powermac (1.25 ghz duallie) on 802.11g.

    If you are not interested in running a full desktop from your server (XDMCP
    I would guess), I'd suggest you try X over SSH (ssh -X)
    Google around and you will find some useful stuff on this. I can't tell you
    how well/bad it interacts with OS X though.

    >Thanks for any suggestions!

    When I did what you are attempting to do now I really enjoyed it, and I
    learned bigtime useful stuff!
    Good luck!
    /J

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