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hl
April 7th, 2007, 01:29 AM
Anyone know of a really simple distro of linux that is ONLY a VNC client. Like the entire purpose is to be a VNC client.. nothing extra? If not, where would I start to make such a distro?
evildrummer
April 7th, 2007, 05:46 AM
Do you mean the VNC as in remote comntrol over network??? If so what do you mean by a distro which is only VNC?
chrisclick
April 7th, 2007, 11:13 AM
a VNC Server prehaps?
hl
April 7th, 2007, 05:55 PM
Nope, client. My cousin's got an old laptop he'd like to use to control his desktop. Hoping to boot some really lightweight operating system up just for VNC. We've been playing around with a lot of the small linux distros like damnsmalllinux and such, but they're all pretty unstable and crash really easily.
chrisclick
April 7th, 2007, 06:02 PM
Slax...
evildrummer
April 7th, 2007, 06:05 PM
Get a bootable ubuntu Live CD and put the cd image on a USB chain add in the VNC client software, then just set laptop to boot from USB
chrisclick
April 7th, 2007, 06:38 PM
^Slax is smaller and boots quicker that Ubuntu Live CD
hl
April 7th, 2007, 08:28 PM
Ubuntu won't run on it, he's got 28mb of RAM.

edit:/ Slax needs 32mb. It looks nice though.
Jeff Wheeler
April 7th, 2007, 08:39 PM
Debian can run on 24mb of memory if I remember correctly, but I doubt any GUI will run on that. Your best bet would be XFCE or less with a VNC client on a stripped-down Debian.
evildrummer
April 8th, 2007, 06:16 AM
the last version of XFCE only needed 16mb (I think it was the last version, when I used it thats what it needed)
hybrid101
April 8th, 2007, 06:33 AM
^now that made me confused:P
28 mb of ram? how old is that laptop?
you'd better be used to commandline then.
chrisclick
April 8th, 2007, 07:49 AM
^lol...
TheColonial
April 8th, 2007, 08:46 AM
www.damnsmalllinux.org :)
evildrummer
April 8th, 2007, 09:22 AM
Cant you just buy a cheap 256Mb stick of ram?
chrisclick
April 8th, 2007, 09:32 AM
and put into a very old laptop? I think that the ram stick in the old laptop is different to the ones we have today...
evildrummer
April 8th, 2007, 09:38 AM
^ EBAY
chrisclick
April 8th, 2007, 10:19 AM
or prehaps the laptop only has one RAM slot???
evildrummer
April 8th, 2007, 12:50 PM
Then get rid of 28Mb stick and get a 128Mb stick
Jeff Wheeler
April 8th, 2007, 01:09 PM
www.damnsmalllinux.org :)

/me shoots down DSL as part of loyalty to Debian and derivatives
chrisclick
April 8th, 2007, 01:58 PM
what is the old laptop only supports up to 28MB