[Mageia-dev] i686 must be Pentium II ?

Tue Oct 5 19:13:56 CEST 2010

R James wrote:
+> [...]
+> I did make a few post-installation tweaks:
+>
+> 1. Remove msec.
+> 2. Disable PulseAudio.
+> 3. Delete /etc/X11/xinit.d/70net_applet
+>    (net_applet is a pig and not needed for static wired connection)
+>
+> Google Chromium is finally a browser that can handle gmail on
+> low-resource systems.  Of course, it won't be playing YouTube
+> videos but for basic email and web-surfing, this system is usable.
+>
+> Here are some interesting outputs:
+>
+> "free" right after logging into IceWM: (27MB RAM, no swap)
+>   
+some of resources are not taken only by the window manager but also by 
+the toolkits and themes, which increase the memory usage.
+Add a mail client (other than a browser looking at gmail or alpine via 
+imap) and you are puzzled...; but you have just described what is 
+considered the ideal client of the cloud os. Just a browser, nothing 
+more because you have everything you need (sort of). Some user might 
+have noticed the bouncing between these two kind of models: a mainframe 
+which becomes a PC (so program and data stored locally) a PC which 
+becomes again a mainframe (where applications and data are stored remotely).
+
+Such kind of a system, indeed more optimized/tweaked and lighter is also 
+included in some ASUS Deluxe motherboard FlashROM with the name of 
+ExpressGate/SplashTOP (includes firefox, a chat client, skype and 
+something for handling photos).
+
+> [...]
+>
+> On the front-panel of this system, there is the old LED which says
+> "233" with the "Turbo" button enabled and "133" with it disabled.
+> That could make an interesting photo for proving that Mandriva
+> and soon Mageia *can* run on legacy hardware.
+>
+> Not sure if this was helpful but perhaps its a good data point?
+>   
+A 233 is probably possible to be emulated on a core i7 using qemu 
+without any virtualization (kqemu, etc.), to look how it appear. Your 
+consideration about the network tools, etc.  were also true: most of the 
+development were made for building a more confortable system for the 
+average user but at the same time become unconfortable and more resource 
+hungry for expert users which spent maybe some more time to learn how to 
+do a manual configuration.
+
+Bye
+Giuseppe.
+
+