On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 08:40:11PM -0700, David Fox wrote: > On 7/6/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >I ran Etch for about 6 months before it became stable since my new box > >required it. I'm runing amd64. > > I'm still on a (sniff) AMD Thunderbird 1000 mhz box. :) > > I'll bet that going from a 486 to an AMD 64 is one hell of an improvement. > :) Yes and no. For 99% of what I do, my 486 is fine. Although, after doing a drive-shell game to get Etch on it (it only has 32 MB ram so the installer doesn't work), its really much slower than sarge and certainly slower than woody. Text-mode scrolling (no framebuffer) and cursor movement, as in arrow-down in mc or lynx, is jerky and slow. OTOH, Net- or Open-BSD run great on it. That 99% of what I do is text-based. Konquerer is too painful (the other 1%). OTOH, now that I've got an Athlon64 with 1 GB ram, and dual 80 GB drives (raid1 for the system), I've got lots of room. OTOH, Stuff just takes up more and more memory. OTOH, there are no other hands (from __Fiddler_on_the_Roof__) :)
> I've been running lenny maybe a month (if not that long) and it's been > pretty > good. Etch I ran for quite sometime - probably over a year and watched it > slowly go to stable. I switched sometime after the move. > > The biggest headaches are the sudden lack of 3d acceleration on the nvidia > geforce fx5200 (and to think I just acquired the card about a month or two > ago!), I use the nvidia driver for my en7300GT so that I can get a good picture when watching DVDs. I forgot about the lack of nvidia modules in testing. > and the difficulty with the tetex to tex-live transition. I'm not a > tex user (was > but that was very lightweight "getting my feet wet" sort of use when I first > was exploring > Linux) of it but it seems to want to get installed, and last night's > dist-uipgrade didn't go > very well. I even ran out of disk space on my / partition. (It was small, > but not *that* small.) > I already use TexLive. What happened to your / partition? How small was it. Is it only / or is it everything but swap and /home? > I certainly don't want to have to install/configure a slew of > internationalsation files for > texlive/tetex or what have you - things like mongolian and vietnamese things > are stuff I'm not > anticipating I'd ever use. > > Is there an easy way to just remove the TeX related stuff without causing > dependency > problems (ISTR that kdvi and some other KDE things need it, and I don't want > to have to remove al of KDE too)? I can understand that anything like a dvi viewer may want Tex stuff but not KDE in general. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
