On Wed, 13 May 2020 at 16:50, Nicholas Krause via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > I've not looked recently but from memory and the discussion yesterday > seems people > have a use case for them. Off the top of my memory the three ideal > candidates depending > on what you requirements would be: > > 1. Arch or Gentoo if your fine rolling basically your own distro with a > package manager > 2. Debian - Any version with a lightweight desktop should work > 3. Debian unstable derivatives based on Debian unstable. Seems there > were a lot, the only issue > was some like antix were 32 bit, but it now seems to have a 64 bit > version. They recommend 256 > mems of ram and I was able to open like 3 "normal tabs without hitting > swap in firefox with that. > Idles between 0 and 3% of a single core from a i5 2500K at 4.2 Ghz in a > VM. Rarely hits 3 percent > at idle, through mostly its a flat 0% to 1% usage. Even on that amount > of hardware it was > surprisingly fast. And yes it can probably run YouTube 1080p on a > Pentium 4 with enough ram, > didn't try through. > https://antixlinux.com/
I would strongly suggest NOT using anything based on Debian unstable in these circumstances. Unstable is meant for developers. Sure, it's totally up-to-date when it's made available, but here's the problem: if they don't follow the Debian unstable repositories, they're not getting the updates they should. If they DO follow the Debian unstable repositories, doing updates is like drinking from a fire hose - the package thrash is huge. A few years back I installed a "lightweight" distro made on this model: it installed easily, using about 1G on a 2G partition. It ran well. Two months later I booted the machine and casually typed 'apt-get dist-upgrade' ... and the process filled the entire hard drive with packages and crashed the machine, without ever getting to actually doing the upgrade. Not a good model. > Debian or Arch would be best if your using GPU packages as those would > be in either AUR, the > user Arch repo probably or another non distribution repo for Debian. > > Also to my knowledge outside of Nvidia and a few ARM vendors most GPUs > are upstreamed in > Mesa these days. The problem is that Nvidia has been the only real > choice in the high end due > to it performing better there for the last few years, there are rumors > of Intel building > discrete cards through: > https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-xe-graphics-all-we-know > > Maybe that helps some people as I forget to mention this yesterday, > Nick -- Giles https://www.gilesorr.com/ [email protected] --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
