Text 11924, 65 rader
Skriven 2008-11-17 05:56:05 av Russell Tiedt (5:7105/1)
  Kommentar till text 11922 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38)
Ärende: all in good time
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Hello Maurice.

16 Nov 08 14:45, you wrote to me:

 MK> I found 512M ram to be sufficient to build everything using gcc-4.3.2
 MK> and glibc-2.7 as the base.  I've been playing around with some of the
 MK> Gnome source in order to get a few apps working on windowmaker as well
 MK> as seamonkey.  That worked out okay although I personally don't need
 MK> or use any of that.  However Paul thinks he does so I gave it a whirl
 MK> minimalizing it.  I even include all the development stuff and it
 MK> comes in at around 800M soaking wet.  Even took the liberty of
 MK> upgrading to xorg-7.4 which is okay from what I've seen thus far.
 MK> This is a pure 64-bit build too.  The thing with me is that if
 MK> something cannot replicate itself it isn't worth booting nevermind
 MK> installing.

While it is doing well enough with 512M RAM, I want to max it out at 2Gig. as 
that is all the board will take, as a sort "life" lengthening "insurance", as 
I tend to hang onto my equipment a long time past Intel/AMD's "use by" dates, 
and I have decided this one will stay here, and not get passed on ...

My current favourite for browsing is FireFox, but I have an application that 
insits on starting SeaMonkey, when it displays HTML content, thought this was 
a bit annoying, at first, but, the more I look at SeaMonkey, the more I find 
to like about it ... , I do however find IceWeasel a little limiting ... , tho 
I have only started using that recently on the Debian box ... , also not that 
impressed with Epiphany, also on Debian ...

Will see how that pans out ....

 MK> Also I managed to build a bootable usb flash install for Asus's Eee Pc
 MK> toys.  Had to upgrade the kernel with a few patches to pull that off.
 MK> Used the 32-bit chrootable development system.

If I had the money, I'd be very tempted to get one of those ... , looked for 
an Atom board without success here ... , don't really have the money for that 
either, but if I could find a supplier, I'd try hard to get one ... :-)

 MK> Speaking of minimalizing, ttylinux now has a new maintainer.  The site
 MK> is still being hosted on MinimaLinux.org.  Paul took over the forums
 MK> there and is in the process of rebuilding.  Things are finally being
 MK> taken care of by people who care about the web crap that I never
 MK> wanted in the first place so now I can take care of the good stuff
 MK> (howtos, build scripts, etc).

Well, I still need to build myself a "homebrew" firewall/internet gateway box 
here, and as I see it, I either base this on a small Debian install, or 
ttylinux, so this news is appreciated here ... , when time allows, I am 
reading up on iptables and iproute2, trying to wrap my head around both, and 
iptables is starting to make sense of a sort here, after a few more reading, I 
will probably start playing with iptables on the Debian box ... , and see what 
I can do there ...

 MK> Please send my best wishes to your wife.

Will do, when I see her this afternoon, she will be going for and angiogram 
later this morning ... , otherwise she is still stable, but still has an 
irregular heart beat ...

Thanks,

Russell

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