[H-GEN] Diskless boxes for internet access

[Christopher Biggs]

Steve Pinel <spinel at ssc.qld.edu.au> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

> So in summary, I either have to set the machines up as X-servers, or boost
> the RAM to about 16Mb?  Would 12Mb do in each machine?

I run Netscape on a 10MB box; it runs happily enough, given some swap
space.

On my 32MB box at work, netscape will happily eat all available memory
after a day of HEAVY HEAVY use.

> I've never played with setting up an X-term before (and I'm fairly recent to
> Linux in general as well).   My understanding is that I can set them up as
> X-terms by runing Linux on the machines, but then running Netscape on the
> server, but directing the video output to the boxes over the network.  Not
> sure about the terminology, but am i on the right track?

Yes.


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