On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 09:44:36PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > I know. my 486 won't run debian anymore. Not enough ram. Runs great > > with OBSD. My P-II runs quite slow with Etch (OK with Sarge). Also > > runs great with OBSD. > > Etch should run great on a P-II, as long as you ditch the heavy-weight > desktop environments, and keep the number of packets installed under control > (otherwise apt/dpkg will require too much RAM, and hit swap too heavily).
Well, it speeded up somewhat by ditching the install-by-default locales stuff and sticking with 'C'. I use icewm. On Etch, xorg takes a lot more memory than on OBSD. Enough that with one xterm only, Etch hits swap and OBSD has 15 MB ram free. I can open Konqueror via ssh and still not hit swap (unless I open more than 4 tabs). So yes, etch is slower and uses more memory than OpenBSD. On the other hand, nothing is easier to set up than Debian with aptitutude. OBSD's packages don't come with startup scripts; you have to write your own. I've also had some interoperability problems when sshing from OBSD to Etch. Had to find a common TERM when on VTs (TERM=screen works), and lately iceweasel doesn't work via ssh from OBSD. Also, as a desktop, OBSD is difficult. So its a tradeoff. I haven't decided which way to go for the P-II, but I'll stick with Etch for my Athlon64 for the multi-media ease. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
