Comments on: The short stack http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/the-short-stack/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: The also-rans « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/the-short-stack/#comment-45581 Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:12:07 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/the-short-stack/#comment-45581 [...] Published 2010/09/26 Linux Leave a Comment I’ve mentioned a few candidates for the 150Mhz, 32Mb machine, which I keep on hand to deliberately confound with software written [...]

]]> By: Theo http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/the-short-stack/#comment-45439 Fri, 17 Sep 2010 06:11:31 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/the-short-stack/#comment-45439 @LM, there are newer versions of INX in the ‘devel’ section. The last time I looked the latest was an Alpha version of Lucid.

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/the-short-stack/#comment-45387 Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:03:19 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/the-short-stack/#comment-45387 Thanks for the notes, LM. I’ve tried INX and liked it a lot; I actually stole their installer script a couple of years ago to use with my own rotten little live CD. :twisted:

I do like Tiny Core, but last time I checked it was a bit difficult to get online with something like a PCMCIA wireless card. I’ll check again though.

I really want to get into the BSDs, but the issue I face is time, really. I’ll have to look into the emulation layer though; that could solve some problems for me.

Thanks!

]]> By: LM http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/the-short-stack/#comment-45385 Wed, 15 Sep 2010 11:36:35 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/the-short-stack/#comment-45385 There’s INX (http://inx.maincontent.net/) if you want to try out a text based version of Ubuntu, but it’s not the latest version. I keep seeing a lot of recommendations for Tiny Core Linux, but I haven’t tried it myself because it says some hardware not completely supported. I keep wondering how FreeBSD stacks up against the various versions of Linux on lower resource systems. I’d love to see some statistics and comparisons. I found video playback faster on FreeBSD, but I was comparing programs that run using X Windows. Maybe a framebuffer solution for playing videos would be faster on Linux and FreeBSD doesn’t appear to have good support for the framebuffer. I’ve also been experimenting with FreeBSD’s Linux emulation layer. You can take programs built for a Linux machine such as Debian and if you copy all supporting libraries over some of them will run on FreeBSD as well. Might make a good solution for sharing compiled software across different machines.

Look forward to hearing the results of your investigations. I’m currently debating on whether to try another Linux distribution on my own laptop or leave FreeBSD on it. Will be interested to see what operating systems/distributions still work in 32 MB RAM.

]]> By: Links 14/9/2010: Linux Graphics Survey Results, KDE 4.5 Reflections | Techrights http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/the-short-stack/#comment-45370 Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:36:53 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/the-short-stack/#comment-45370 [...] The short stack [...]

]]> By: Calvin http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/the-short-stack/#comment-45357 Mon, 13 Sep 2010 10:37:14 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/the-short-stack/#comment-45357 From what I heard, the minimal installer refuses to start on 64 MB, so no.

I can get the netinst for Debian 5 to start on 64 MB though, but I have a fear of the partitioner.

]]> By: mrreality http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/the-short-stack/#comment-45353 Mon, 13 Sep 2010 07:31:21 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/the-short-stack/#comment-45353 Hey k i have been messing round with different puppys on my Toshiba satellite 2535cds is seems to prefer tuxxx’s 214 retro
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=42553&search_id=2021200104

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