If your mighty 386/25 with 4MB can make World the entire X distribution and custom kernels then surely it won't sweat a little bit of bzip2 decompressing... and since you spend a lot less time downloading a bzip2ed *.deb, the extra time bzip2 would take by swapping and thrashing the disk should balance out nicely.
Christopher James Troup wrote: > > Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes in gratuitous QP: > > > On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 12:15:40PM +0100, James Troup wrote: > > > > Old/slow/lomem machines can't properly compile X or Mozilla anyway. > > > > > > Bzzt. I've compiled xfree86 for Debian/m68k on a 386/25 equivalent > > > with only 14Mb (don't ask) of memory several times. Took 5 days, > > > like, but it compiled ``properly''. > > > > I doubt it would compile on my 4 meg 486. > > I don't; I compiled kernels on the same machine when it only had 4Mb. > > > Nor would it run there. > > And I know it ran on my Falcon with 4Mb... > > -- > James > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
