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Re: 200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop

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Post by ryan-c »

themafia wrote: post #84
wongogue wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People like his technical opinion because they like his politics. That’s the whole grift-influencer economy. If someone is good at one thing (and validates some of my views), then obviously he’s right about everything.

When people feel underrepresented to the point of being bullied they turn to any voice which seems to reflect even a tiny fraction of their frustrations. There's a real mean spirit in open source lately and a lot of it seems to revolve around political views. There's become this idea that if you and I disagree on politics then it would be impossible for us to write quality software together. It's damaged a lot of goo…

My existence is not political. If someone doesn't think I should have rights and/or exist and/or thinks I am inferior because of who I am, then no, we cannot write quality software together.

If someone disagrees with me on tax, foreign relations, government services, defense, etc policy, sure, we can disagree and still work together.

What gives rise to people like Lunduke is not a simple thing, and something I don't think society fully understands.

Re: 200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop

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Post by fenykep »

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #13
eth0up wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can your "one issue" be tweaked by adding more RAM and allocating it thusly? I'm using Void with 24gb ddr5 and frequently get system freezes during high productivity. Browser tabs in the background are often contributors, but working with openshot or odb crashes often. I have several old nuc's and I might try tinycore on one. What do you or most others use it for, primarily?

I am not sure how my one issue can be fixed. It seems to be fundamentally an issue of their minimalist xorg server itself but I am pretty sure that there must be a way > I'm using Void with 24gb ddr5 and frequently get system freezes during high productivity. Browser tabs in the background are often contributors, but working with openshot or odb crashes often. Kdenlive's' pretty good for what its worth and I use Arch…

I'm not sure if I understood your issue correctly but you can persist your configuration with all diskless (os is entirely in RAM) OSs as far as I know. This way you wouldn't have to install the setup after every reboot. Here is the guide for tinycore:

https://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/doku.php?id=wiki:persistence_...

Re: 200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop

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Post by [deleted] »

jabwd wrote: post #87
heraldgeezer wrote: post #22

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For us not in the know, why is this bad?

Even ignoring all the politics and crazy stuff from the "maintainer"; most of their contributions were just shuffling code around and causing a lot of breakage. The typical "but this looks nicer so its better" type of programmer, not the type of code I'd rely on personally.

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Re: 200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop

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Post by [deleted] »

don-bright wrote: post #82
badc0ffee wrote: post #8

I remember booting up Debian into an X11 session on a laptop with only 8 MB of RAM. (This would have been circa 2000, and I think I had to try a few different distros before finding one that worked. Also I don't think I did anything with it beyond Xterm and Xeyes.)

Ran linux in an 8 mb 486 in the 90s. X ran in 256 color mode and twm or mwm were the window managers. It was so hard to use though. Had to setup modelines settings for your monitor in a textfile and theoretically could damage it with wrong iputs. Programming X fuggedabout it - I was from turbo borland msdos land where everything was neatly documented and designed with clear examples to make programming easy. I was lu…

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Re: 200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop

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Post by jovial_cavalier »

OsrsNeedsf2P wrote: post #7

While this is cool, it all goes out the window the minute you run any app

Unused RAM is wasted. But used RAM is also wasted, sometimes. If I can accomplish the same thing with less RAM, that's better, because it lets me do other things at the same time. It doesn't mean I'm not going to use that RAM, that would be pointless. My desktop running dwm typically idles at ~50GiB RAM usage from random crap I've got running. But I can prove that the desktop is using no more than like 300MiB.

Re: 200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop

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Post by zozbot234 »

themafia wrote: post #80
werdl wrote: post #3

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Saying shill implies XLibre is some kind of scam he's trying to trick you into, where as, if you don't like it, you're absolutely free to not use it. Or, what's the popular line in this scenario, "if you don't like it go make your own?" I'm sorry.. I just find the reliable cult of software personality on HN to be a little frustrating.

Xlibre is not really a scam but it isn't much of a serious technical project either. I suppose you could call it a low-effort meme of the typical 4chan variety.

Re: 200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop

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Post by Imustaskforhelp »

fenykep wrote: post #92
Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am not sure how my one issue can be fixed. It seems to be fundamentally an issue of their minimalist xorg server itself but I am pretty sure that there must be a way > I'm using Void with 24gb ddr5 and frequently get system freezes during high productivity. Browser tabs in the background are often contributors, but working with openshot or odb crashes often. Kdenlive's' pretty good for what its worth and I use Arch…

I'm not sure if I understood your issue correctly but you can persist your configuration with all diskless (os is entirely in RAM) OSs as far as I know. This way you wouldn't have to install the setup after every reboot. Here is the guide for tinycore: https://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/doku.php?id=wiki:persistence_...

Ah yes sorry forgot about persistence since I played with it some long time ago and the details were blurry

yes I probably could do that and most likely would on the laptop but I really wanted to tinker with tinycore a lot first so I was using the non persistence mode

I will probably do it later when I replace my old mini laptop's battery with a new (I think it costs less than a $ or so I have heard) but the procastination aspect is gonna have me do it to find a good shop around me to have the part etc. to probably and I am thinking of doing it after a few months but the mini laptop's still in my room :) (all be it off)

Re: 200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop

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Post by 72deluxe »

don-bright wrote: post #82
badc0ffee wrote: post #8

I remember booting up Debian into an X11 session on a laptop with only 8 MB of RAM. (This would have been circa 2000, and I think I had to try a few different distros before finding one that worked. Also I don't think I did anything with it beyond Xterm and Xeyes.)

Ran linux in an 8 mb 486 in the 90s. X ran in 256 color mode and twm or mwm were the window managers. It was so hard to use though. Had to setup modelines settings for your monitor in a textfile and theoretically could damage it with wrong iputs. Programming X fuggedabout it - I was from turbo borland msdos land where everything was neatly documented and designed with clear examples to make programming easy. I was lu…

Yes, I remember making my 12" IBM monitor scream as I put the wrong mode information in the config file for X. I think I was on RedHat 5.0 from a cover CD, on a 486 DX2 with 64 MB of RAM (I was poor; everyone else was on Pentium IIs or IIIs and I was using computers the school threw out, scraping together motherboards and RAM).
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