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Re: Ldlite 1.0 delayed
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lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.fun
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
Date: 
Sat, 3 Oct 1998 16:56:48 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.*avoidspam*org
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[followup set to lugnet.off-topic.fun]

Mike Stanley <cjc@newsguy.com> wrote:
Heck, if I end up figuring enough stuff out, as cheap as processors
are getting I might just put together a super cheap box at home to run
it dedicated.  Spec'ed out a 300a decked out system for $1,000 without
monitor today.  Wouldn't need some of that stuff in a linux machine,
so i could probably go cheaper.

What I do at home is run Win95 on my box with a nice graphics card/monitor,
and then use X-win32 (http://www.starnet.com/product.htm) to run my Linux
programs on the Win95 box's display.

--
Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us                       --->             http://quotes-r-us.org/



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  Re: Ldlite 1.0 delayed
 
(...) Sweet! I had thought of doing something like this but wasn't sure if it would be feasible. Now if I understand correctly when you run something like X-win32 the machine doing most of the work is the Linux box, right? The PC is mainly just (...) (26 years ago, 3-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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  Re: Ldlite 1.0 delayed
 
(...) Mmmm..... more cool stuff for me to play with on my linux box at work. Heck, if I end up figuring enough stuff out, as cheap as processors are getting I might just put together a super cheap box at home to run it dedicated. Spec'ed out a 300a (...) (26 years ago, 3-Oct-98, to lugnet.cad)

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