Re: Debian on an old system
On Sat, 2002-05-18 at 18:24, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> I was approached today by a guy wanting me to write an inventory
> control/work order system to use in his muffler shop and used car
> dealership. The problem being, the computers that he has available are 2
> 486s and a Pentium Pro. Obviously, he's not going to be getting a
> worthwhile graphical app running on this, but will the systems be able
> to handle something along the lines of an ncurses app with maybe a MySQL
> db for data storage? Would there be a better approach to this? Or is the
> best approach to tell him that he needs to dish our a couple hundred $
> for a couple of old PII 233s or something.
Don't be too hasty! What are specs on the 486s and the PPro?
Also, how big are the monitors? 15" probably? Remember: Linux
is very efficient, especially when you roll you own kernel, leaving
out the unnecessary stuff...
The debian-user thread "Small footprint window manager" (which
started either early this month or late last month) discusses
running X on a 386/33 with 16MB RAM.
Be that as it may, I've found that for "accounting apps" text-mode
is best.
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