Jim Crumley wrote: > On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 11:07:37AM -0500, Chris Frederick wrote: > >>I may be getting a new (and I use that term loosely) laptop. It's a >>pentium (unknown mhz) with 16M ram, 500M hard drive, and built in >>floppy. It has Win95 installed right now and I was wondering if it >>would work as an X client connecting to a remote X server through wifi >>(802.11b or g if it can handle that). Or is this too slow? And are >>there any recommendations on distros that would load easily on this? > > > To echo others, a pentium should work fine as thin terminal. > Stick with a lighter window manager like fvwm. > If you could scrounge up alittle more memory that would help it > run much better, but 16 MB is manageable. > > As far as installation goes, I would try to do a network install. > Floppy installs can be painful. I would suggest installing > Debian - http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install . > I would suggest not even using a window manager locally - boot directly to X windows and have it query your main server for a login. If you go this route, and most of your applications use client side fonts, 16Mb should be plenty of memory. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list