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Re: Damn Small Linux 2024

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Post by anthk » Sat, Feb 03, 2024, 8:55 AM UTC

dmwilcox wrote: post #148

Atreiden wrote: post #99

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Wow I've never heard of someone running Alpine as a desktop OS before. How is the experience without glibc? What are you using for a DE? I'd thought X relied on glibc

I've run musk based distro for a couple of years with no trouble (KISS Linux and now some hacked up Alpine monster I put together). I don't do streaming video that requires DRM -- which will be a non-starter due to the widevine/whatever plugins being compiled against glibc. But yeah, full Wayland desktop (well, sway) and Firefox -- no problem. I occasionally use a debian chroot to pull up gnucash (accounting program)…

You can run gcompat and some AppImage for that DRM crap. Ditto with the CUPS driver. Not an appimage, you might be able to set up that CUPS binary with gcompat.

Re: Damn Small Linux 2024

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Post by anthk » Sat, Feb 03, 2024, 8:56 AM UTC

mike_hock wrote: post #135

ls65536 wrote: post #20

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I got it running as a VM guest on QEMU+KVM, exposing only a 486 CPU profile with 256 MB RAM, and it was still usable (with terminal, file manager, and some light web browsing). Looking at the system's memory usage though, it appears that going much lower than about 200 MB RAM would probably make it quite difficult to use (at least without relying on swap, which could make it even more miserable depending on the devic…

That only fakes some cpuid flags. KVM cannot blacklist specific instructions or emulate idiosyncrasies of specific vintage CPUs.

You can run bare qemu without kvm, there's a fag to disable it.

Re: Damn Small Linux 2024

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Post by anthk » Sat, Feb 03, 2024, 9:01 AM UTC

veganjay wrote: post #113

I was looking for a lightweight OS to run on old Asus Eee PC 1005 HA, which uses a 32-bit Intel Atom N270 processor. I installed Void Linux ( https://voidlinux.org/ ). I may give DSL 2024 a try and see how it compares.

N270, I use Hyperbola with CWM+UXterm+ CLI/TUI software except mupdf, sxiv and mpv. SBCL and Vis it's my "IDE". It runs pretty snappy.

Re: Damn Small Linux 2024

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Post by makerdiety » Sat, Feb 03, 2024, 12:38 PM UTC

fuzzfactor wrote: post #180

makerdiety wrote: post #176

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> Well, it's your environment, you would probably have to figure that out for yourself. No. Actually. It's not my environment at all. I could just leave and go somewhere else. Like Mars, Heaven, or somewhere else. And I'll be taking three gigajoules per second of power production with me. > It's good to minimize consumption of Earth's resources to maximize the displacement of the need for extraterrestrial raw materia…

Well when I try to be as zealous a fanatic as possible it still isn't working, so it must be something else;) Good catch. Sorry about having nothing to sell, it was all sold out by more well-informed and more persuasive geeks than me, way before I had a chance to get near any soapboxes. Nothing wrong with a little reminder that some people's fruit hangs a lot lower than others.

The universe and unfriendly monsters are eating up all your accessible apples.

And that pleases me.

Because you're forced to turn into a monster yourself. If you don't want to starve and die.

So a little skilled zealotry is kinda essential. ;) So is probably persuading and selling others to your side. So that you can form a competent party of universe survival enthusiasts.

Re: Damn Small Linux 2024

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Post by fuzzfactor » Sun, Feb 04, 2024, 5:59 PM UTC

makerdiety wrote: post #184

fuzzfactor wrote: post #180

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Well when I try to be as zealous a fanatic as possible it still isn't working, so it must be something else;) Good catch. Sorry about having nothing to sell, it was all sold out by more well-informed and more persuasive geeks than me, way before I had a chance to get near any soapboxes. Nothing wrong with a little reminder that some people's fruit hangs a lot lower than others.

The universe and unfriendly monsters are eating up all your accessible apples. And that pleases me. Because you're forced to turn into a monster yourself. If you don't want to starve and die. So a little skilled zealotry is kinda essential. ;) So is probably persuading and selling others to your side. So that you can form a competent party of universe survival enthusiasts.

>universe survival enthusiasts.

People are way ahead of me on that, with skills that may only be valuable on my home planet, I'm sure to be left behind in the dust :(

Some things stand the test of time better than others.

And some ideas are not that new but maybe the earlier the concept the better. Not that long ago back at the beginning of 1970 Neil Young had something to say about how things might work out in the decade to come, from "After the Gold Rush":

"Look at Mother Nature on the run in the nineteen seventies."

"Well I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships . . ."

"The loading had begun, flying Mother Nature's silver seed to a new home in the sun."

https://genius.com/Neil-young-after-the-gold-rush-lyrics

But that was when every year that came along was another "routine" manned moon landing.

(2016) “After The Gold Rush is an environmental song,” Young said:

https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-stories-behind-the-...