Re: HP RP2430 RISC sysytem

2023-10-16 Thread yxcv
On Mon, 16 Oct 2023 12:54:35 -0400 Stefan Monnier wrote: 2GB RAM. IT IS NOT TOO MUCH for firefox-Monster.or OS? Could be, I don't know. I know that 1GB is too little (still works, but painfully so), and that 3GB is currently sufficient for my use-cases. The 2GB in my smartphone seem t

Re: HP RP2430 RISC sysytem

2023-10-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
> 2GB RAM. IT IS NOT TOO MUCH for firefox-Monster.or OS? Could be, I don't know. I know that 1GB is too little (still works, but painfully so), and that 3GB is currently sufficient for my use-cases. The 2GB in my smartphone seem to be just enough for limited uses of Fennec. Stefan

Re: HP RP2430 RISC sysytem

2023-10-13 Thread yxcv
On Fri, 13 Oct 2023 12:13:26 -0400 Stefan Monnier wrote: AFAICT the RP-2430 has a 650MHz PA-8700. Not sure how it compares to my Pentium III, but it's likely somewhat slower at least for non-FP Actually, the SPEC results I find for CINT2000 for "similar" machines suggest that it's probably

Re: HP RP2430 RISC sysytem

2023-10-13 Thread Marco M.
Am 13.10.2023 um 18:43:11 Uhr schrieb Thomas Schmitt: > According to the "X-Spam-Status:" header of the original mail, the > address plattenspi...@gmail.com is not subscribed (no LDOSUBSCRIBER > test result). Some people read the mailing list via Usenet with a mail2news gateway.

Re: HP RP2430 RISC sysytem

2023-10-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i forward an answer from Ilya Klimovisky to me directly, which was obviously meant to reach the subscribers of debian-user@lists.debian.org too. > Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2023 14:24:07 +0300 > From: Ilya Klimovisky > > Hi Thomas,hi Debian users! > Many thanks for the answer. I have a free of charg

Re: HP RP2430 RISC sysytem

2023-10-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
> AFAICT the RP-2430 has a 650MHz PA-8700. Not sure how it compares to my > Pentium III, but it's likely somewhat slower at least for non-FP Actually, the SPEC results I find for CINT2000 for "similar" machines suggest that it's probably about as fast, so I think that with 2GB it should be defini

Re: HP RP2430 RISC sysytem

2023-10-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > But a machine from the early 2000s and contemporary GNU/Linux will > > probably not become a happy couple. > FWIW, I'm running Debian testing on a 2003 Thinkpad X30 and it's working > quite nicely. Well, if there is enough of love involved ... :o) Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: HP RP2430 RISC sysytem

2023-10-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
> But a machine from the early 2000s and contemporary GNU/Linux will > probably not become a happy couple. FWIW, I'm running Debian testing on a 2003 Thinkpad X30 and it's working quite nicely. Obviously the 1.2GHz Pentium III CPU is a bit sluggish and the 1GB of RAM makes it very painful to run

Re: HP RP2430 RISC sysytem

2023-10-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Ilya Klimovisky wrote: > Hello Debian team, Disclaimer: We are the users (although somewhat watched by the team). > Could you please be so kind as to advise which version I can install to > the HP RP2430 RISC system? The newest release for HP PA-RISC (hppa) is more than 10 years old: htt

Re: HP RP2430 RISC sysytem

2023-10-13 Thread Marco
Am 13.10.2023 schrieb Ilya Klimovisky : > Could you please be so kind as to advise which version I can install > to the HP RP2430 RISC system? https://www.openpa.net/systems/hp_a400_a500.html https://www.openpa.net/pa-risc_processor_pa-8700.html Is that your machine? Does it have the PA-8700 CPU

HP RP2430 RISC sysytem

2023-10-13 Thread Ilya Klimovisky
Hello Debian team, Could you please be so kind as to advise which version I can install to the HP RP2430 RISC system? Many thanks!