From: vsergeev <vse...@sa...> - 2002-03-30 20:16:54
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On Sat, 30 Mar 2002 18:41:38 +0000 (GMT) Alan Cox <al...@lx...> wrote: > > X aint going to work. It takes up too much space and the amount of > > space it would take up would negate it's use. Even with it running of > > flash I find myself running smaller apps to just make as much use as > > my16mb of memory on my 5mx. You stand a better change with PicoGUI > > or Microwindows, > > I run X happily on a 486 with 16Mb of RAM. The trick is running the right > stuff. A kdrive X server is small, and a desktop like Xfce likewise. The > iPaq is all done using X11 and has 16mb of onboard flash but 32Mb of RAM. > Given that they burn chunks of that on python and pkgtk junk you can > certainly do it in 16Mb. > > Nanogui offers some opportunities - fltk apps can be recompiled directly > for it or X > > Alan I know the Agenda Vr3 has minimal ram (I think...) and runs microX or something like that with the FLTK window manager.. Maybe it will be possible to recompile the X stuff with the arm-linux compilers... -- Thanks, vsergeev ===================== Proboscis: The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes of humor it is popularly called a trunk. -- Ambrose Bierce |