Re: What Linux distribution to use?
On Tuesday 26 July 2016 18:47:11 Johann Klammer wrote:
> On 07/26/2016 04:50 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > Telling us your requirements, will make making a recommendation easier.
>
> I did. it's just those two things...
> ...
> kinda thought it was obvious, that the problem is my boxen being too
> old to run that stuff.
How old is old?? I have been running Debian on some pretty old stuff, but
then I don't use Stretch for it. Anyhow:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=linux+distro+good+for+old+computers&oq=linux+distro+good+for+old+computers&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i64.13778j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
I'm sure you have done that!
I second Felix's recommendation of Trinity DE for old computers. It will even
run on a Raspberry Pi A (just, and it has to be a specially adapted TDE!)
Lisi
> To be more specific, something I tried to install had a dependency on
> apt-transport-https, and pulled in new versions of:
> Get:1 http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian testing/main i386 libapt-pkg5.0 i386
> 1.3~pre2 [898 kB] Get:2 http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian testing/main i386
> apt-utils i386 1.3~pre2 [402 kB] Get:3 http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian
> testing/main i386 apt i386 1.3~pre2 [1,166 kB] Get:4
> http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian testing/main i386 apt-transport-https i386
> 1.3~pre2 [157 kB]
>
> those would not run:
>
> Dump of assembler code from 0xb7eb4a73 to 0xb7eb4a87:
> 0xb7eb4a73
> <_Z14ReadConfigFileR13ConfigurationRKNSt7__cxx1112basic_stringIcSt11char_tr
>aitsIcESaIcEEERKbRKj+2275>: cmp -0x288(%ebp),%eax => 0xb7eb4a79
> <_Z14ReadConfigFileR13ConfigurationRKNSt7__cxx1112basic_stringIcSt11char_tr
>aitsIcESaIcEEERKbRKj+2281>: cmovne -0x1bc(%ebp),%edx 0xb7eb4a80
> <_Z14ReadConfigFileR13ConfigurationRKNSt7__cxx1112basic_stringIcSt11char_tr
>aitsIcESaIcEEERKbRKj+2288>: lea 0x1(%edi),%ecx 0xb7eb4a83
> <_Z14ReadConfigFileR13ConfigurationRKNSt7__cxx1112basic_stringIcSt11char_tr
>aitsIcESaIcEEERKbRKj+2291>: mov %ecx,-0x274(%ebp)
>
> Luckily, there were still versions 1.2.1 in the local
> /var/cache/apt/archives, I dpkg -i 'd them, so all is working for now...
>
> But I'll have to look for alternatives.
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