|| Phlog 12 - Old Computer Challenge ||
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|| Initial Post 6-30-2023 || OpenBSD Thinkpad ||
|| Update 7-4-2023 || OpenBSD iBook ||
|| Update 2 7-5-2023 || OpenBSD Thinkpad ||
HTTP Link to Solene's Post:
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-06-04-old-computer-challenge-v3.html
G4 iBook setup for the challenge:
- ppc 1.33Ghz
- 256Mb RAM
- 20Gb HD
- 1024 x 768
+ OS
- OpenBSD 7.3
+ Window Manager
- fvwm - lightweight, fairly easy to customize
+ Shell
- ksh
+ Terminal
- roxterm
- xterm
+ Browser(s)
- Netsurf - Appears to be the best bet for a gui browser off the hop; fairly quick, somewhat compatible
- Lynx along with w3m will be the terminal browsers I probably rely on the most
- Badworlf - Slooooooow on this particular machine
- YouTube - minitube -
https://openports.pl/path/www/minitube
+ Mail
- TBD (Read: I was overly ambitious and tried to use Evolution which made the PPC inside this iBook burn white hot)
- 7/4 - Sylpheed - seems to work fairly well and connects without issue
+ Calendar/Address book
- calcurse ?
- simpleagenda ?
- gsimplecal ?
+ IRC
- Hexchat for joining #oldcomputerchallenge on libera.chat
+ RSS
- akregator(Unless it's just for KDE?)
- It may just be easiest to use an account on
https://ttrss.sdf.org/
Other notes and quagmires:
the airport card is not working so a $6 EDiMAX USB dongle to the rescue. It worked out of the box with home and work wifi, which was a welcome surprise!
To-Do:
+ GPG
+ Test with public wifi - I have my doubts the terminal browsers and Netsurf will work well with the captive/portal pages some public wifi utilizes.
+ Figure out mail -> Leaning toward mutt or Claws
+ Calendar -> I'm in the midst of moving from Google calendar to ProtonMail which will be interesting.
+ JPilot -> What goes better with an old computer challenge? An Old PDA, clearly.
+ Music - figure out a way to stash at least a small amount of music locally and play it without cratering the CPU.
- amused? (
https://projects.omarpolo.com/amused.html)
What works:
What doesn't:
