Announce: X PC Server

Autor: Wojciech Myszka (myszka_at_immt.pwr.wroc.pl)
Data: Tue 03 Jan 1995 - 14:10:47 MET


Szanowni Panstwo,
znalazlem takie interesujace obwieszczenie na temat mozliwosci wykorzystania
PC z Linuxem jako X-terminala. Oprogramowanie jest dostepne
w ftp://ftp.immt.pwr.wroc.pl/pub/X-terminals
pliki xpcs.doc i xpcsa.zip

Dziala bardzo sprawnie, wymaga niestety pewnej minimalnej wiedzy na
temat plikow konfiguracyjnych XFree86 i doinstalowania fontow lub posiadana
w najblizszej okolicy font serwera.

Polecam

Wojtek

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Wojciech A. Myszka                         myszka_at_ldhpux.immt.pwr.wroc.pl
Technical University of Wroclaw, Institute of Material Science 
and Technical Mechanics, Smoluchowskiego str. 25
50-370 Wroclaw, Poland, tel. (+48 71) 21-50-28, fax () 21-12-35
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[ Article crossposted from comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc ]
[ Author was Francisco Rosich Viana ]
[ Posted on 31 Dec 1994 17:42:16 +0100 ]
If you want to use a PC as an X terminal, give a try to xpcsa.zip,
available at ftp://modico.eleinf.uv.es/pub. The README file is attached
to this announce.
"modico" is my 386 PC at work. It is not usually a stable site for
ftp distributions, but I'm about to spend a full week skiing,
so it will be idle most of the time. When I come back by monday 9,
I'll upload to a better site if necessary.
I will not have (or need) Internet access at Avoriaz :-), so be patient
if you send me mail during this week.
Paco.
rosich_at_graf.ci.uv.es
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XPCS Alpha, 31-Dec-1994                Paco Rosich <rosich_at_graf.ci.uv.es>
XPCS turns a PC into an X-terminal by using a minimal Linux system and
the XFree86 server. The idea is that most people that don't want to
install a full PC-based UNIX system could run a good X server in only
3.5Mb of space on a DOS partition (using UMSDOS). The distribution, with
the SVGA server and without fonts, fits compressed in one floppy (I know 
now that there was a UMSDOS Linux distribution in three floppies which 
included an X server. This handy distribution is no longer at major archive 
sites).
So that's what I've called XPCS (for "X PC Server"). There is no
user-friendly installation or configuration utility, and may not work in
your hardware as released (you may have to get other kernel or X server). 
I still feel that this can be useful for most people, so I'm distributing 
it anyway.
You need 3.5 Mb of hard disk space in a real drive (no network, no
compressed drives,..) to install XPCS. If you have all your drive compressed
with DoubleSpace, defragment the compressed unit and reduce its size to
recover space in the physical drive. Use "pkunzip -d" to extract paths
stored in the zipfile, and extract to the root directory, so \linux is
created. 
A >386 PC with 4Mb RAM is required. Also, some host on your network should
run xdm.
Read xpcs.bat; it will say you what to do now. I'm not including enough
documentation to smoothly install and configure everything. Try getting
documentation about Linux and XFree86 if you have problems. Major Linux ftp
sites are sunsite.unc.edu (/pub/Linux) and tsx-11.mit.edu (/pub/linux).
I don't pretend to make this into a high quality product, so there is no 
version number. Only this "alpha" now, and hopefully a "final release" soon 
if I receive enough feedback.
Paco.


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