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From: venkates@frith.msu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Small X for 386 bsd??
Message-ID: <1992Aug31.153743.24065@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Date: 31 Aug 92 15:37:43 GMT
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Organization: Michigan State University, College of Engineering, East Lansing
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Hi
Even the binary only release of X for 386bsd requires lotsa disk!,
I was wondering (forgive me if this sounds stupid) if one trim the existing
X release to it's barest minimum, I am only interested in having some
sort of a windowing system running on the PC and am not paricularly
intersted in having a vast number of fonts etc being available to me.
On the same note, if X cannnot be made any smaller, are there other windowing
systems that can be used?
Thank you all in advance

Venkatesh Gopinath
Michigan state University.