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>Tiny Applications and Distributions</TITLE
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>Appendix E. Dealing with Limited Resources or Tuning the System</TD
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>E.9. Tiny Applications and Distributions</H1
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> A small collection yet, but I'm looking for more information.
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> BOA - "Lightweight and High Performance WebServer.
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<B
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CLASS="command"
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>boa</B
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> is a single-tasking HTTP server. That means that
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unlike traditional web servers, it does not fork for each incoming
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connection, nor does it fork many copies of itself to handle multiple
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connections. It internally multiplexes all of the ongoing HTTP
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connections, and forks only for CGI programs (which must be separate
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processes.) Preliminary tests show boa is capable of handling several
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hundred hits per second on a 100 MHz Pentium."
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> <SPAN
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CLASS="application"
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>MGR</SPAN
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> - a graphical windows system, which uses
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much less resources than X.
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> Low Bandwidth X:
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</P
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> Alan Cox in LINUX REDUX February 1998 " .. there are two that handle
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<EM
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>normal</EM
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> applications very nicely. LBX (Low Bandwidth
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X) is the <EM
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>official</EM
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> application of the X11 Consortium (now
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>OpenGroup</A
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>.
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HREF="http://www.vigor.nu/dxpc/"
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>Dxpc</A
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is the alternative most people prefer. These systems act as proxy X11
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servers and compress datastreams by well over 50 percent for normal
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requests, often reaching a reduction to 25 percent of the original
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bandwidth usage. With dxpc, X Windows applications are quite usable
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over a 28.8 modem link or across the Internet."
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</P
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> <A
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HREF="http://blackboxwm.sf.net/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>blackbox</A
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- "This is a window manager for X. It is similar in many respects to
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such popular packages as Window Maker, Enlightenment, and FVWM2.
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You might be interested in this package if you are tired of window
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managers that are a heavy drain on your system resources, but you
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still want an attractive and modern-looking interface."
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>Figure E-1. Screenshot of <B
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CLASS="command"
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>blackbox</B
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>xfce</A
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is a lightweight and stable desktop environment for various <SPAN
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CLASS="acronym"
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>UNIX</SPAN
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> systems.
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> <SPAN
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CLASS="application"
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>linux-lite</SPAN
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> - distribution based on a 1.x.x
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kernel for systems with only 2MB memory and 10MB harddisk. URL see
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above.
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</P
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HREF="http://www.superant.com/smalllinux/"
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>SmallLinux</A
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is a three disk micro-distribution of Linux and utilities. Based on
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kernel 1.2.11. Root disk is ext2 format and has
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<B
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CLASS="command"
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>fdisk</B
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> and <B
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CLASS="command"
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>mkfs.ext2</B
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> so that a
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harddisk install can be done. Useful to boot up on old machines with
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less than 4MB of RAM.
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</P
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><LI
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> cLIeNUX - client-use-oriented Linux distribution.
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</P
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><LI
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> <A
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>minix</A
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, not a Linux but a <SPAN
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CLASS="acronym"
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>UNIX</SPAN
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> useful for very small
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systems, such as 286 CPU and 640K RAM
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. There is even X11 support named mini-x by
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<A
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HREF="ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/alan/"
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>David I. Bell</A
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</P
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> <B
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CLASS="command"
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>screen</B
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> - tiny but powerful console manager.
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John M. Fisk <fiskjm_AT_ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu> in
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HREF="http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue01to08/lg_issue7.html#screen"
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TARGET="_top"
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>LINUX GAZETTE</A
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:"It's a GUI, GUI, GUI, GUI world! " -- or so the
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major OS manufacturers would have you belief. Truth is, that while this
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is increasingly the case, there are times when the command line interface
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(CLI) is still a very good choice for getting things done. It's fast,
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generally efficient, and is a good choice on memory or CPU constrained
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machines. And don't forget that there are still a lot of very nifty
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things that can be done <EM
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>at the console</EM
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>."
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</P
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></LI
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><LI
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> tinyirc - "A tiny, stripped down IRC Client. Doesn't have most of the
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more advance commands in the ircII family of IRC Clients, nor does it
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have any color, but it works, and it's tiny."
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</P
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></LI
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><LI
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> JOVE Jonathans Own Version of Emacs, a small but powerful editor.
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.
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