Thursday·03·May·2007
VCFe talk online / bijou vs Etch //at 00:52 //by abe
With a few days lag, the slides to my VCFe 8.0 talk Aktuelle, freie Software auf alter Hardware (“Up to date, free software on old hardware”, held in German using Kazehakase and S5) are now online. In comparision to my former talks on that subject (held at some DebianDays), this talk was not Debian focused but focused more on not so well known, but resource-friendly free software as well as focused on an audience which has more knowledge of old hardware than of current software. :-)
Additionally, I updated my old blog post about X on my ThinkPad 760ED named bijou so that now also my current XF86Config-4 for Sarge on that box is linked in there.
Apropos bijou: I couldn’t recommend Debian 4.0 Etch that much for old computers with not so much memory since especially aptitude has grown much in regards of it’s memory and performance needs. Regarding my experiences with Etch, any computer with less than 50 MB of RAM will start to swap if aptitude is only started on such a box. I’ve looked throough the aptitude documentation, but I haven’t found a way to switch of some of the tables it generates internally. E.g. I have no need for the tag database it always generates. I really would be happy, if someone knows a way to turn even only that feature off. Then I may dist-upgrade bijou to Etch, since I found that dselect is no real alternative to aptitude anymore.
Oh yeah, and I of course bought new old hardware at the VCFe: A 386SX
Thin Client named Flytech Carry-I 9300 from 1991 with about 200 MB of harddisk and
10 MB of RAM.
Tagged as: 386, 386SX, aptitude, bijou, Carry-I, Debian, dist-upgrade, dselect, Etch, Events, Hardware, Kazehakase, München, S5, Sarge, Tagging, Talk, Thin Client, ThinkPad, VCFe, Vintage, X, XFree86
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