On Sun, 16 May 1999, R. Brock Lynn wrote:
> " Raymond A. Ingles" wrote:
> > On Sun, 9 May 1999, George Bonser wrote:
> > > Well I got the old 386 put back together [...] Now it is running
> > > Debian and MAN is it S-L-O-W.
[...]
> > > I guess I won't be compiling any kernels on that box ... wel
" Raymond A. Ingles" wrote:
>
> On Sun, 9 May 1999, George Bonser wrote:
> > Well I got the old 386 put back together, figured I would use it for a
> > firewall. 386SX33 with 10MB of RAM. Man, what an example to show what OS
> > bloat has done! I used to install Win31 on it, even installed OS/2
> Oh, I agree. Note that I am installing a pretty minimum system anyway. It
> was not the size of the packages I was complaining about, it was the the
> debian utils seem to be rather inefficient. I imagine anoyone installing
> on a 486 would see the same things.
>
> My biggest peeve was the "rede
On Sun, 9 May 1999, Pann McCuaig wrote:
> On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 04:50:30PM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
> > I guess I won't be compiling any kernels on that box ... well, maybe ONE
> > just to see how long it takes.
> > :)
> If memory serves, my first linux box, a 386SX-16 with 4MB took abo
On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 04:50:30PM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
Hi George!
> Well I got the old 386 put back together, figured I would use it for a
> firewall. 386SX33 with 10MB of RAM. Man, what an example to show what OS
> bloat has done! I used to install Win31 on it, even installed OS/2 Warp
On Sun, 9 May 1999, George Bonser wrote:
>
> Well I got the old 386 put back together, figured I would use it for a
> firewall. 386SX33 with 10MB of RAM. Man, what an example to show what OS
> bloat has done! I used to install Win31 on it, even installed OS/2 Warp
> on it. Now it is running Debi
George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In dselect the Scanning available packages .. part puts out about
> one dot every three seconds.
Isn't this output from 'dpkg'?, it can build huge internal tables (or
something like that at least it grew to a wopping 13MB RSS for me
once.). How
On Sun, 9 May 1999, George Bonser wrote:
>
> Well I got the old 386 put back together, figured I would use it for a
> firewall. 386SX33 with 10MB of RAM. Man, what an example to show what OS
> bloat has done! I used to install Win31 on it, even installed OS/2 Warp
> on it. Now it is running Debi
On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 04:50:30PM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
>
> Well I got the old 386 put back together, figured I would use it for a
> firewall. 386SX33 with 10MB of RAM. Man, what an example to show what OS
> bloat has done! I used to install Win31 on it, even installed OS/2 Warp
> on it. N
George Bonser writes:
> Man, I think maybe the maintainers should be forced to install their
> stuff on a 386 just to get some perspective. CPU horsepower sure can
> cover up inefficient code. Or to put it another way, an system without
> any CPU horsepower sure exposes the inefficiencies.
Hmm. A
Another thing to think about might be NFSing what you need from another
machine. Use the 386 as what amounts to (almost) a diskless client that
gets all its files off another machine except /boot.
On Sun, 9 May 1999, Carl Mummert wrote:
> >Well I got the old 386 put back together, figured I wou
>Well I got the old 386 put back together, figured I would use it for a
>firewall. 386SX33 with 10MB of RAM. Man, what an example to show what OS
>bloat has done! I used to install Win31 on it, even installed OS/2 Warp
>on it. Now it is running Debian and MAN is it S-L-O-W.
>In dselect the Scanni
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