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Re: Mr. Mad Duck: about etch-stable fluxbox?



Gayle Lee Fairless(fairless@hiwaay.net) is reported to have said:
> I looked on the maintainer webpage which seems to indicate that an IBM 
> Thinkpad 390 Pentium MMX (233 MHZ) needs to have a patch installed for 
> fluxbox to work.  Since an MMX is somewhat slow, I was hoping to consider 
> fluxbox or something like it instead of the heavy-duty GNOME or KDE.  
> 
> BTW, I do have a copy of Martin Kraft's book just in case I missed 
> something in it.  Please tell me.
> 
> Thanks for your advice.  I enjoy using Debian from time to time on my 
> other systems.
I guess this is a new thread(?)

On my 770's I have fluxbox running and had not heard about a patch to 
run it.

tp770  Running as Access Point.
$ ssh tp770 cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 5
model           : 8
model name      : Mobile Pentium MMX
stepping        : 1
cpu MHz         : 233.876
cache size      : 0 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 mmx
bogomips        : 468.18
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on tp7702  (with bad pcmcia)
$ ssh tp7702 cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 5
model           : 8
model name      : Mobile Pentium MMX
stepping        : 1
cpu MHz         : 200.457
cache size      : 0 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 mmx
bogomips        : 401.35

Wayne

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