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I just need X, ssh client and vnc would be nice too.
(64mb disk space, 32mb RAM).
edit: I NEED X to have xhost +whatever or ssh x forwarding. I can't kdrive to do this at the moment and also can't get kdrive to start a window manager.
Distribution: OpenBSD 4.6, OS X 10.6.2, CentOS 4 & 5
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Less than 64MB of RAM, or disk space? My OpenBSD firewall only uses about 16MB of RAM, and that's with a pretty big set of packet filtering rules, 3 instances of arpwatch, sshd, etc... You could easily run OBSD on 64MB of RAM (probably NetBSD, too). In my experience FreeBSD uses more RAM, but I hear that it scales memory usage to use "nearly all" of what you have available, so if you have less physical RAM it uses less. Also, I've never really done a minimal install of FreeBSD.
X will use by far the most RAM of any process, so you won't want a window manager front-end (like xdm, etc) just use startx to launch your actual windowing environment. Use Fluxbox (or Blackbox), or one of the similar very minimal windowing environments.
Distribution: OpenBSD 4.6, OS X 10.6.2, CentOS 4 & 5
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Hmm, 64MB of disk is really tight. Your best bet is to read up on PicoBSD. I just checked my OpenBSD install, and the minimum install looks around 120MB.
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