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dougvega

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Posted: April 02 2007,03:51

how do one go about getting rid of the Xsever on a modern distro lets say for the sake of simplicity "UBUNTU" and installing the XVesa and XFbdev instead
the same way damnsmall and feather did
I am sorry if this is not the place to ask but I have asked in the proper forums with no luck.

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Posted: April 02 2007,13:49

Those are part of the kdrive tinyx servers.
If you plan on compiling X, those are also part of the tree which you can build.

There's existing pre-built binaries somewhere which you may use... but did you ever consider the unofficial "Ubuntu-lite"? See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuLite
If you plan on using slightly older hardware with the ease of ubuntu packages, you may as well start with a lighter system anyways.

dougvega

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Posted: April 02 2007,16:19

thanks for your answer , I am aware of the ubuntu lite project and I have tried it but it still uses Xorg , I also tried fetherweight and I liked it; it has the K drive but it can not be upgraded , I wonder if I can strip it of everything but the Kdrive and then convert it into Ubuntu I read somewhere that it can be done .
well thanks for your answer , you would'nt happen to know where I can find the existing pre-built binaries for it would you ?

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Posted: April 02 2007,18:56

Perhaps you used another version? From the link I previously posted, on the install link, it says

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There are other nice things at the list, like xvesa a tinyx server that allow ubuntu to run with as little as 16 mb of memory, and the icebuntu theme, which looks like the default gnome theme in regular ubuntu.

dougvega

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Posted: April 02 2007,20:25

Thanks for pointing that up I had completely missed it I will try it tonight .

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