Re: Which OS to just to run WEB Browser

The Natural Philosopher <a@xxx> wrote:

Stefan Patric wrote:
On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 19:33:05 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

John Hasler wrote:
Stefan Patric quotes:
[Debian} Recommends 1 GHz CPU and 512 MB RAM for Etch with a desktop.
They are equating "desktop" with Gnome or KDE.


Do you need a desktop at all? Obviously you need X windows, but suppose
you simply boot straight into the browser..and use browser tools for any
other activity, possibly even down to launching programs..

No, you don't, but if you want to run X base apps, you need the X
server and some type of basic window manager to make things easier.
However, I've read that all that is required to run an X app is the
X server. Although, I've never tried it.

Oh well. X was around long before BIG window managers.

A window manager is part of the X concept and had bee around as long as
X has been around.


.Xterm was how you launched your app..there was some way of resizing
windows IIRC and switching focus..not sure if that's part of X-windows
native, or not..

That's what a window manager is for. Without it you can't even move
windows.



Florian
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