[Rule-list] Slinky and tinyX

[Michael Fratoni]

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I've built XFree86 rpms for slinky, and they seem to work well. They are 
about half the size of the stock rpms. They also offer about half the 
functionality of the stock rpms.. ;) These packages use the stock 
XFree.org 4.2.0 source, and are then patched to 4.2.1 during the build. 
(There was no full source for 4.2.1 posted, only a patch file.) Next, 
I'll try it with the source included with RH 8.0.

If anyone would like to try these packages, I'll make them available.

Here is a little bit of size comparison:

5.3M XFree86-4.2.1-3RULE.i386.rpm
 11M ../../devel/dist-8.0/stock/RedHat/RPMS/XFree86-4.2.0-72.i386.rpm

1.4M XFree86-libs-4.2.1-3RULE.i386.rpm
2.2M ../../devel/dist-8.0/stock/RedHat/RPMS/XFree86-libs-4.2.0-72.i386.rpm

I did a slinky install on a P100 laptop, including base packages, network, 
laptop, web/communications, and ssh package sets. Disk usage was about 
319M.
address@hidden root]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2             2.7G  314M  2.3G  12% /
none                   18M     0   18M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1              95M  4.7M   87M   6% /boot

Then, I built and installed Xfree packages, plus fontconfig, freetype and 
fluxbox.
address@hidden root]# rpm -ivh XFree86-4.2.1-3RULE.i386.rpm 
XFree86-libs-4.2.1-3RULE.i386.rpm
XFree86-tools-4.2.1-3RULE.i386.rpm 
XFree86-base-fonts-4.2.1-3RULE.i386.rpm
XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.2.1-3RULE.i386.rpm
XFree86-font-utils-4.2.1-3RULE.i386.rpm
XFree86-truetype-fonts-4.2.1-3RULE.i386.rpm
XFree86-twm-4.2.1-3RULE.i386.rpm 
XFree86-xauth-4.2.1-3RULE.i386.rpm 
freetype-2.1.2-7.i386.rpm 
fontconfig-2.0-3.i386.rpm
fluxbox-0.1.12-1.i386.rpm

After install and removal of the .rpm files, it looks like the X packages 
account for ~ 34M of disk usage. (348M v. 314M on /):
address@hidden root]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2             2.7G  348M  2.2G  13% /
none                   18M     0   18M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1              95M  4.7M   87M   6% /boot

Create a link to the X server needed;
ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/servers/Xfbdev /usr/X11R6/bin/X

Available servers for kdrive are:
# ls /usr/X11R6/bin/servers/
Xchips  Xfbdev  Xi810  Xigs  Xmach64  Xsavage  Xsis530  Xtrident  Xtrio  
Xvesa

Create a .xinitrc file to load the desktop (in the users /home 
directory).:
address@hidden mfratoni]$ echo exec /usr/X11R6/bin/fluxbox > .xinitrc

Then start up the server:
address@hidden mfratoni]$ startx

It took no more than 3 or 4 seconds to start up and have the fluxbox 
desktop ready. The twm window manager included in the XFree86-twm package 
also works, loads quickly, and is quite usable. I prefer fluxbox to twm.

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pgp key:  http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt
Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/
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