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- From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
- Subject: Re: Small X for 386 bsd??
- Message-ID: <s1hn7an.hasty@netcom.com>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 19:57:58 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug31.153743.24065@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> venkates@frith.msu.edu writes:
- >Hi
- >Even the binary only release of X for 386bsd requires lotsa disk!,
- >I was wondering (forgive me if this sounds stupid) if one trim the existing
- >X release to it's barest minimum, I am only interested in having some
- >sort of a windowing system running on the PC and am not paricularly
- >intersted in having a vast number of fonts etc being available to me.
- >On the same note, if X cannnot be made any smaller, are there other windowing
- >systems that can be used?
- >Thank you all in advance
- >
- >Venkatesh Gopinath
- >Michigan state University.
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- You can strip the binaries and pick and choose your configuration.
- If this becomes a problem, please let me know
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- The stock X386 1.2E 1.0.1 server with no debug symbols is about 1 MB.
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- Amancio Hasty
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