I use Linux on the PC and i know that XWindow alocates itself a hell of a lot of the system RAM and is one of the systems biggest processes. When on 68k machines this can reduce performance severely. However i seem to remember of an XWin equivilant that had slimmer overheads and ran significantly faster, and as far as i am aware is the choice for Thin Client applications. I think its called Tight VNC? Perhapse this could help?