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 her
e.
The thing can run Firefox, Thunderbird and Libreoffice at the same time. It swap
s from time to time
but you can certainly use it in a pitch. If you can write reports in Writer whil
e 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 s
ay the computer you
do it all from is usable :-)
I also tested OpenBSD. Putting the working environment together was a bit hackis
h but it also does
well. I think it is a bit more responsive than Linux in some regards but their T
hunderbird
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 f
irmwork because the
repositories lack package signing and the process by which they accept package s
ubmissions is too
free-for-all.
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