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RE: info: single install xfree86 + minimal cygwin?
- From: "Tim Huckvale" <tim dot huckvale at bcs dot org dot uk>
- To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 12:56:43 +0100
- Subject: RE: info: single install xfree86 + minimal cygwin?
Sorry, I simplified a bit. I do telnet for simple tasks, but I'm playing
around with Linux for other things as well. This is a home network, and we
were using Wingate on a Windows 95 machine as internet gateway. The
all-family frustration this was generating became my excuse to build a Linux
box over Christmas and revisit my unix-hacking roots. I went for KDE because
I'm getting to old to re-learn all that vi finger-work. Now if I could just
get DNS to work properly... - but that's another mailing list.
Tim
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Jim George
> Sent: Friday, 12 April 2002 21:02
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: info: single install xfree86 + minimal cygwin?
>
>
> If you SuSE Linux box is only acting as a fileserver, gateway
> why run X on
> it? If you make it run at runlevel 3 then it only needs the
> command prompt
> and you won't need xfree86 under cygwin to access it.
>
> Indeed you don't anyway, simply ssh or telnet to Linux box.
>
> Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tim Huckvale" <Tim.Huckvale@Charteris.com>
> To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 10:31 AM
> Subject: RE: info: single install xfree86 + minimal cygwin?
>
>
> I'm interested in a minimal cygwin / xfree86 package since I'm only
> using it to control my SuSE Linux fileserver and internet
> gateway which
> sits in a corner with no keyboard or monitor. I connect via
> xdm and run
> KDE desktop. The total cygwin and xfree86 installation takes up 100
> Mbyte disk space, which seems excessive.
> ...