Le mercredi 07 juin 2006 à 02:15 +0200, Axel Beckert a écrit : > Hi! > > > I'm creating a meta package for install a lite desktop for old > > machines with poor hardware. > > Hey, that's a really cool idea! Debian is one of the last modern (and > not specialised) Linux distribution feasible for old and slow > hardware, especially old PCs. But Sarge already made a big step away > from old PCs (e.g. by dropping XFree86 3.3 and requiring 32 Megs of > RAM for installation -- Woody needed only 12 Megs) so I'm really happy > to see that others try to take the cudgels for Debian on old hardware > too. [..] > Since one of the points, why I like Debian, is its huge package > variety (so there's nearly always also a low end software for the > desired purpose) and since Woody runs fine on most of those boxes, I > was perfectly fine with that. Now since Woody runs out of security > support, I installed Sarge on a Pentium 90 with 76 MB of RAM and a 1,5 > GB big but bad performing HD. I general it runs fine, but X took a > while (the graphics card is no more supported in XFree 4.x and there > no more supported in Sarge) to get it running. To my knowledge, at some point, the XFree86 Team treated the no-longer-existing-in-4.x drivers as bugs. They requested anybody who noticed that its graphics card worked with previous versions of XFree86 but no longer with 4.x to submit a bug and it would be fixed. Are you sure your card is not simply managed by another driver now (split or merging of drivers)?
[..] > And then there are the real low end browsers like Dillo and the Links > family (links, links2, elinks, etc.) as well the pure text browsers as > lynx and w3m. But there you have to lower your sights regarding the > rendering quality respective rendering features (no CSS there, etc.). Dillo doesn't support CSS either, I think. [..] Most recent software also have more configuration items available, and you can often trim down their requirements using them. Regards
