Re: Penalty of SELinux?
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On 09/22/07 20:44, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 09:44:36PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>
>>> I know. my 486 won't run debian anymore. Not enough ram. Runs great
>>> with OBSD. My P-II runs quite slow with Etch (OK with Sarge). Also
>>> runs great with OBSD.
>> Etch should run great on a P-II, as long as you ditch the heavy-weight
>> desktop environments, and keep the number of packets installed under control
>> (otherwise apt/dpkg will require too much RAM, and hit swap too heavily).
>
> Well, it speeded up somewhat by ditching the install-by-default locales
> stuff and sticking with 'C'. I use icewm. On Etch, xorg takes a lot
> more memory than on OBSD. Enough that with one xterm only, Etch hits
> swap and OBSD has 15 MB ram free. I can open Konqueror via ssh and
> still not hit swap (unless I open more than 4 tabs).
>
> So yes, etch is slower and uses more memory than OpenBSD.
>
> On the other hand, nothing is easier to set up than Debian with
> aptitutude. OBSD's packages don't come with startup scripts; you have
> to write your own. I've also had some interoperability problems when
> sshing from OBSD to Etch. Had to find a common TERM when on VTs
> (TERM=screen works), and lately iceweasel doesn't work via ssh from
> OBSD.
>
> Also, as a desktop, OBSD is difficult.
>
> So its a tradeoff. I haven't decided which way to go for the P-II, but
> I'll stick with Etch for my Athlon64 for the multi-media ease.
What's FreeBSD like of small systems?
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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