Re: Small footprint window manager
12 May 2002 23:55:36 -0500 "Ron Johnson" <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>:
> On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 19:42, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> > >
> > > Isn't this all rather academic, since Miroslav has a _386_ with
> > > only SIXTEEN MB RAM? Running X would be folly!! Not only is the
> > > CPU old and slow, but so is the RAM, HDD, video card, etc. And
> > > the HDD will tiny!!!
> > >
> >
> > sufficient X to have multiple term windows open at once. He won't be running
> > KDE or what not, but that is not a requirement. Web browsing, simple file
> > editing, etc can be done there. My first Debian machine was a 486 dx2 66 with
> > 16 megs of ram and a 800mb (top of the line for the time) hard drive.
>
> Your CPU was _much_ faster, you had 2x as much RAM, and I bet your
> HDD was faster than Miroslavs. And, as I question in another post,
> you were probably running the 2.0 (or lower?) kernel, and libc5,
> both of which are much smaller than kernel 2.2 with libc6 2.2.x.
> Don't forget the really old versions of XFree86 and gcc.
>
> In other words, RedHat 5.2 or what ever Debian was out then. He'd
> have to find binaries from back then, since newer s/w assumes libc6
>
> What would you _do_ with it, nowadays?
>
> The 2.2 kernel and apps like elvis and links or lynx in virtual
> terminals would be great (well, adequate) though.
>
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First of all, disk is IBM SCSI 2GB that seems pretty fast to me and provides enough space.
The idea is to find how useful is such old box. If it can do some web browsing, mail and some simple word processing I'd be satisfied. No KDE or Gnome. Think of putting few such boxes in some public area and enable people (students) check their mail and surf. I don't want to pay M$ licenses. I thought, if it runs almost smoothly win95 (or 3.11) why not Linux.
Secondly, I'm terrified when I see that people are using PIII/Athlon with 128MB and Win XXX for such simple tasks as POS. I don't think that you need GUI to run such SW and I hope that Linux is not going in that direction, too.
Thirdly, is there a way to use that box as X terminal?
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Miroslav Mazurek, mmazurek@sfsb.hr
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