Comments on: Crux and Awesome at 120Mhz, 16Mb http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/crux-and-awesome-at-120mhz-16mb/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Musca and e3, with space left over « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/crux-and-awesome-at-120mhz-16mb/#comment-40177 Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:35:29 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=2999#comment-40177 [...] Published 2009/08/21 Crux Linux , Hardware Leave a Comment Now that I have X up and running on the new/old laptop, I have shifted gears slightly, and installed two of my own suggestions: [...]

]]> By: damaged justice http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/crux-and-awesome-at-120mhz-16mb/#comment-40166 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:14:55 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=2999#comment-40166 My favorite interesting OS’s that aren’t trying to do things like everyone else:

Loper OS:

http://www.loper-os.org

OIU (OIU Isn’t Unix):

http://www.memetech.com

Dex4U:

http://www.dex4u.com

LoseTHOS:

http://www.losethos.com/index.html

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/crux-and-awesome-at-120mhz-16mb/#comment-40164 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:06:44 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=2999#comment-40164 I have looked into it in the past; the problem that I had was that, after installation, there was little to be done about hardware compatibility.

If I had a standalone machine that didn’t need, for example, Internet access I might be able to use it with one or two of the machines I have. But as it is I would have to put together a machine with specific components to use that (or Kolibri, if I remember right) to its fullest.

I’ll take another look at it though. Things like that are always fun. :)

]]> By: ArmorNick http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/crux-and-awesome-at-120mhz-16mb/#comment-40163 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:06:31 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=2999#comment-40163 Is it, by any chance, compatible with linux programs? If not, I and probably most others, have no use for it. Very cool though ;) .

]]> By: tigrmesh http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/crux-and-awesome-at-120mhz-16mb/#comment-40160 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:26:45 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=2999#comment-40160 You might find the emptyswap script useful. The original script is here:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Empty_Swap

The colorized version is here:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=73373

]]> By: road http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/crux-and-awesome-at-120mhz-16mb/#comment-40157 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:20:37 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=2999#comment-40157 this is unrelated to this post, but I just read on slashdot about MenuetOS which is an entire OS built from scratch in Assembly that is not UNIX based and the whole thing is 700Kb to download (yup, that’s Kb). sounds way smaller than even the teensiest linux distros, and apparently it’s quite fast. have you seen or tried this? it sounds like the sort of thing you’d be into and I’d love to hear your thoughts…

http://www.menuetos.net/index.htm

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/crux-and-awesome-at-120mhz-16mb/#comment-40156 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:48:48 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=2999#comment-40156 With the proper terminal-based applications installed, it’s quite usable. The problem right now is that any X-based system is going to spill over that 12Mb limit quite easily, which means frequent swapping, slow application starts, pauses while Awesome realigns the windows …

But it’s quite possible to use it regularly.

http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/one-week-at-100mhz-lessons-learned/

The problem is that I have three machines doing much the same thing now. … :roll:

]]> By: The_englishman http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/crux-and-awesome-at-120mhz-16mb/#comment-40154 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:33:58 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=2999#comment-40154 Do my eyes deceive me? htop says you are working with 11 meg? That’s amazing! What practical use will you put it to, though?

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