Wed 2004-08-25 19:38, Bob Lawrence (3:712/610.12) wrote to All:

 BL> gee this is good, running Linux out of Win98 using VNC and the 
 BL> Gnome GUI. I'm sorry I wasted so much tiem stuffing around in Suse
 BL> and KDE... Suse sux. Not only is it unstable, but it's slow! I've been
 BL> blaming Linux and X11... it's KDE that is hopeless.

I use WindowMaker here.  Very light-weight...

 BL>  It seems to work so nicely that I could just boot the Linux box,
 BL> load the VNC Xserver, and let it run 24/7 forever (no keyboard, mouse
 BL> or video required)... except that a box with a 400W power supply
 BL> worries me. How much bloody power does a Pentium take? If it's 200W at
 BL> 10c/kwh, that's $50 a quarter... half my existing electricity bill.   

I imagine/hope it'd draw less than 100W with the monitor turned off.  With
any luck the hard disk will power down too when it's not doing anything,
although I'm not sure about the longevity of hard disks powering up and
down all the time, so I let mine spin continuously (for years). 

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