How does one minimize the base environment plus Xorg for lowend machines?

[Justin Hibbits]

On Feb 11, 2011, at 11:07 PM, Super Bisquit wrote:

> The G3 B&W has been volunteered as part of an effort to use a  
> Lombard- The
> laptop has the same cpu- as a device for the visually impaired. I'm
> currently running a build of orca and attempting to lessen the build  
> by
> removing unnecessary build options.
> The release is the 9.0-CURRENT recently announced on the mailing list.
> The attempt of porting emacspeak to the machine failed when using an  
> old
> port on a OpenBSD install. NetBSD was difficult to boot due to not  
> knowing
> the proper boot commands. (If someone knows how to do this or can  
> show me
> what I did wrong, I'll be glad to read.)
> Tiny BSD seems to be optimized for i386 processors. Can this be used  
> on a
> Lombard or a B&W with Xorg and the r128 driver?
> One of the light "Box" desktop environments can be used or the cwm  
> from
> OpenBSD and orca setup to run along with it.

Take a look at src.conf(5).  I read through that then went crazy with  
the WITHOUT_* options in my /etc/src.conf, to disable as much as I  
could for my G4 MDD.

- Justin