Juan Erbes <jerbes@arnet.com.ar> writes:
Mark Creamer wrote:
Hello, I am very new to Linux, but I have a new AMD64 system running SuSE 9.1, and am very pleased. My question is regarding my older PCs. Can I install a minimal installation of SuSE on my old PCs, and allow them to connect to my main machine to run the programs located on it? This would be akin to using an old Windows machine to connect to a terminal server to run programs. I don't think my old PCs will run very well running a full KDE environment.
What would the old PC need to do this, and would the main AMD64 system need special packages to allow for this? Thanks
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That might be overkill, though. First see if a plain-jane SUSE install will do. The main potential problems are that modern distros tend to use multiple GB of disk space and that the GUIs are gobbling up RAM and CPU cycles. Replacing KDE with e.g. fvwm2 (which is actually a great window manager, once you get the knack of how to configure it) could take quite a bit of load off the system, and you may be able to squeeze into a fairly small disk partition if you can live without development packages and the like. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) (*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907