FreeBSD/XFree questions

[Jalle]

At 20:45 2003-07-10 -0700, Cotton wrote:
>Hey all,
>
>First off, my *nix experience
 I’ve run a few different distros on the mac 
>and PC just checking stuff out, but never full-time ­ definitely still a 
>newbie. I have an old P166 here that I want to set up as a headless file 
>server (mp3s, divx, documents)/web server/sendmail et al
 it won’t be hit 
>too hard, anyway.

You're at the right place, FreeBSD is your friend in this matter! =o)

>Will an old P166/64mb 66mhz SDRAM run FreeBSD 5.1 with X/KDE/Gnome ok? Or 
>should I forget about the GUI and just control it through ssh?

If I were you, I'd think twice about X. It's hard to tell exactly how it 
will run. But you can always try it just for fun, you'll learn a lot! I 
know I did! =o)
As for Gnome/KDE... Nonono!!! I'm sorry, but these monsters are slow enough 
on my PIII 800 with loads of memory! Try a window manager instead (ie, not 
a desktop environment, just the wm), some highly recommended are blackbox 
and fluxbox.
Controlling it via SSH is easy if your X experiments should fail. And 
effective!

>I was hoping XFree would be useable, so I could run some apps remotely 
>using Apple’s X11 on OS X. Which leads to question #2
 how does one run an 
>X application remotely like that, and have just the GUI on the local box? 
>The machines would be on the same subnet 192.168.1.x, with the FreeBSD box 
>on an Ethernet interface and the Powermac (1.25 ghz duallie) on 802.11g.

If you are not interested in running a full desktop from your server (XDMCP 
I would guess), I'd suggest you try X over SSH (ssh -X)
Google around and you will find some useful stuff on this. I can't tell you 
how well/bad it interacts with OS X though.

>Thanks for any suggestions!

When I did what you are attempting to do now I really enjoyed it, and I 
learned bigtime useful stuff!
Good luck!
/J

>Cotton
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