Re: [OT] Old machine bsd vs. linux

2009-11-19 Thread Allen
On Thursday 19 November 2009 10:42:51 pm Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 08:24:58PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > Though the system in case is not such an "ancient" platform. i386 is > > alive and well. Even FreeBSD supports it. Linux surely does. > > I think i486 is now the lowe

Re: [OT] Old machine bsd vs. linux

2009-11-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 08:24:58PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > Though the system in case is not such an "ancient" platform. i386 is > alive and well. Even FreeBSD supports it. Linux surely does. I think i486 is now the lowest supported platform on Linux, well at least on Debian. -- Chris. --

Re: [OT] Old machine bsd vs. linux

2009-11-18 Thread Allen
On Wednesday 18 November 2009 08:37:26 am S. Fishpaste wrote: > Agreed. I'm using Sid on a Toshiba P3 550 Coppermine, with xfce as the GUI > and 300+ Ram. Runs fine even with Firefox 3.5.x, which admittedly is a > little slow to start; but once running, browsing is fine. Chrome starts up > much fa

Re: [OT] Old machine bsd vs. linux

2009-11-18 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:51:04 -0500, Chris Jones in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > Does performance degrade over time? > > If you implement one of the slimmer desktops and turn off unnecessary > bells and whistles in your applications, I can't see any good reason why > a recent version of debia

Re: [OT] Old machine bsd vs. linux

2009-11-14 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:54:08PM EST, Javier Vasquez wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry to ask specially through this list... > > I've been a linux user for around 10 years now, however lately some > 800MHz Coppermine machines are not performing as well as they used to. 650 MHz Coppermine + 386M RAM. How

Re: [OT] Old machine bsd vs. linux

2009-11-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 08:31:09PM +, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Why not using a minimal linux distro? Or LFS? Why would you want to use LFS? What's wrong with running Debian on it? -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tza

Re: [OT] Old machine bsd vs. linux

2009-11-14 Thread Nuno Magalhães
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Re: [OT] Old machine bsd vs. linux

2009-11-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 09:36:03AM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > >> On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:54:08 -0600 >> Javier Vasquez wrote: >> >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Sorry to ask specially through this list... >>> >>> I've been a linux user for around 10 years now, however lately some >>> 800MHz Coppermine ma

Re: [OT] Old machine bsd vs. linux

2009-11-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Javier Vasquez put forth on 11/11/2009 10:54 PM: > If any one could share pointers to more up to date benchmarks, which > are as well oriented not just to networking and servers, it'd be > great. The idea is to find data supporting the initial idea of > freeBSD or openBSD providing better perform

Re: [OT] Old machine bsd vs. linux

2009-11-12 Thread Miles Fidelman
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:54:08 -0600 Javier Vasquez wrote: Hi, Sorry to ask specially through this list... I've been a linux user for around 10 years now, however lately some 800MHz Coppermine machines are not performing as well as they used to. What I've read in this same list in the pas

Re: [OT] Old machine bsd vs. linux

2009-11-12 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:54:08 -0600 Javier Vasquez wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry to ask specially through this list... > > I've been a linux user for around 10 years now, however lately some > 800MHz Coppermine machines are not performing as well as they used to. > > What I've read in this same list i

[OT] Old machine bsd vs. linux

2009-11-11 Thread Javier Vasquez
Hi, Sorry to ask specially through this list... I've been a linux user for around 10 years now, however lately some 800MHz Coppermine machines are not performing as well as they used to. What I've read in this same list in the past, is that for the purpose of still not letting them die, using op