Old PCs and linux

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2004-10-10 20:58, "Μάριος Κ." <marios_hellas_23 at yahoo.gr> wrote:
> Exo sta xeria mou diafora PC, arketa palia (apo k6-380 mexri PIII 500
> kai mnhmes peripou 384-512 MB RAM). Sto parel8on dokimasa na balo
> linux (SuSE 9.1 , Mandrake 10.0 kai Fedora Core 2) . Sta perissotera
> to apotelesma htan apokardiotiko. Ston k6-380 to kde 3.2 polu baru kai
> mh leitpurgiko, ston PIII apla ypoferto.  Den me endiaferei na exo
> tzibitzoule X periballon, gia auto peite ti na kano ? Na psakso gia
> palies ekdoseis linux pou exoun px. KDE 2, h na prospa8hso me
> enallaktika gui (p.x. fluxbox,icewv ktl)? Palia 8ymamai ena post me
> sygkriseis diaforon GUI, alla den mporw na 8ymh8w ti eixate proteinei?

Prin dokimaseis palioteres ekdoseis, opwsdhpote dokimase toulaxiston tous
ekshs window-managers (oxi aparaithta me auth th seira) xoris omws to plhres
KDE h Gnome:

    - windowmaker
    - fvwm2
    - fluxbox

Tous exo xrhsimopoihsei kata kairous kai tous 3 kai einai idiaitera elafroi se
apaithseis an prosekseis ligo tis ru8miseis tous.  Auth th stigmh to wmaker
trexei sto PC mou, me 4 virtual desktops anoixta, kai pianei molis 3 MB real
memory:

    $ ps xuw | { read H; echo "$H"; grep wmaker; }
    USER      PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS  TT  STAT STARTED      TIME COMMAND
    giorgos  1021  0.0  0.7  5016 3448  v1  S    11:01PM   0:02.89 wmaker

Kai pali polu einai.  Exo dei to fvwm2 na ksekinaei me RSS mikrotero apo
2 MB :-)

> b) An ksexaso teleios to X periballon, ena tetoio
> palio pc <<paizei>> grhgorotera me kernel 2.6 h me
> kernel 2.2?

Otan uparxei epilogh, kalutera einai na protimas tis neoteres ekdoseis.
Kuriws epeidh oi palies mporei na exoun security problhmata pou exoun lu8ei
stis neoteres.  Ektos ki an milame gia mhxanhmata pou den exoun (kai den
problepetai suntoma na apokthsoun) prosbash me kanena tropo sto diktuo, eite
amesa eite emmesa meso kapoiou allou local mhxanhmatos, opote isos kai na min
exei shmasia na trexoun nees ekdoseis.

H taxythta den ksero an einai toso polu problhma, alla otan ta mhxanhmata
einai arketa palia (p.x. exoun ISA, EISA, VESA cards pou pleon den
uposthrizontai apo neous pyrhnes) isos na exei nohma na baleis kapoia palia
ekdosh leitourgikou.  Auta pou eipes omws oti exeis einai (sxetika) prosfata.
Den tha exoun problhma logika kai me tis neoteres ekdoseis tou Linux.

- Giorgos