Subj : Re: KICQ as an "Old New I
To : Tracker1
From : Arelor
Date : Wed Sep 22 2021 03:30 pm
Re: Re: KICQ as an "Old New I
By: Tracker1 to Arelor on Tue Sep 21 2021 04:39 pm
> On 9/5/2021 6:26 AM, Arelor wrote:
>
> > So yes, it is awesome that you can afford to have 32 Gb of RAM on
> > your weakest computer. But that is not an argument to make to a
> > guy whose pro-computer fleet has no computer with more than 2.
>
> I wasn't trying to be offensive... only mentioning that 16+ has been
> widely available for a while, at least in the US. I'm often very
> surprised when I see something with less than 8gb.
>
> There's definitely some hard press to try to get something running that
> low on resources with a modern desktop. There was some options in
> Windows XP that let you use a fast USB or other drive as extension
> memory. Not sure if you can still do that in Windows or Linux.
You can pull it off with Linux for sure. Just swapon the external drive :-)
I was testing some setup for deployment yesterday. I used a workstation of 2 GB of RAM and a
processor so cingeworthy I am not going to ashame myself by giving its specs here.
The thing can run Firefox, Thunderbird and Libreoffice at the same time. It swaps from time to time
but you can certainly use it in a pitch. If you can write reports in Writer while notifying
insurance companies of a case's status via a web portal, while you get mails and live updates
regarding events and schedules via calendar addons, then I think it is safe to say the computer you
do it all from is usable :-)
I also tested OpenBSD. Putting the working environment together was a bit hackish but it also does
well. I think it is a bit more responsive than Linux in some regards but their Thunderbird
implementation is slower.
I also tried Tiny Core Linux. That thing rocks. It is blazing fast and you don't realize you are
using a stoneage computer. The drawback is the distribution is no suitable for firmwork because the
repositories lack package signing and the process by which they accept package submissions is too
free-for-all.
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