Re: Will VNC run on a laptop with 32MB? What to do with OLD laptop?
- From: "Cameron L. Spitzer" <cls@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:19:00 -0700
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In article <6EKnl-52a-13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Rick Reynolds wrote:
J F wrote:
Will VNC run on a laptop with 32MB?
WOuld be a nice remote desktop in my living room to
my bedroom linux machine or windows machine.
I've got an old laptop.
I was wondering what the best thing to
do with it is?
It has no CD and only 32MB of memory.
I found X windows is swapping constantly to disk
if you move a window on another machine I have.
Best thing to do with that 48 MB laptop is add RAM
while it's still available. You're not going to
be happy with the X Window System in 48 MB.
I installed Sarge on a 100 MHz laptop with 64 MB
+ 1MB video. Fluxbox was usable with Dillo.
Mozilla ran without swapping too much, but only on
low-graphics pages. Abiword was usable but slow
to launch. The same system with 48 MB swapped constantly,
and absolutely wasn't usable. The culprit was the
X server itself. My conclusion, 64 MB is the lower
limit for XFree86 3.x. Same machine runs Mozilla
adequately with 128 MB. At the bottom end, RAM matters
more than CPU speed.
I wonder if you can use a swapfile on an NFS-mounted
remote partition. That might be usable with a
Cardbus (32-bit) 100 Mbps NIC. I doubt it would be
adequate with a PC-Card (16-bit) NIC. Also wonder
if laptops of that era have USB 2.0 so you could
swap on a thumb drive.
Cameron
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