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Alpine minimal remote desktop on a 128mb VPS

Alpine minimal remote desktop on a 128mb VPS

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Alpine minimal remote desktop on a 128mb VPS

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Built this as a guide for users of my hosting service. Everything here was run on a real instance. The Mesa/LLVM dependency is genuinely painful on a 1GB disk, and I couldn't find a way around it. WindowMaker won the window manager battle purely on dependency chain cleanliness; it pulls in no GTK, no Python, no audio stack. Happy to answer questions about any of the choices made. Screenshots at the end.

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Ernesto Huels Ernesto Huels 3 months ago

Mesa on 1GB disk is brutal. Respect for pushing through that.

Camryn Barrows Camryn Barrows 3 months ago

that mesa overhead on 1gb is brutal, basically the whole disk gone