Re: Atari TT (next)

Geert Uytterhoeven
2012-01-29T21:56:14Z

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 20:55, Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> wrote:
> Geert Uytterhoeven dixit:
>>Don't tell me. My Amiga also has only 12 MiB of Fast RAM. Where are
>>the days my Amiga was mailserver for 70 people, many of them logging
>>in remotely to read their email with pine? Debian is getted too bloated,
>
> ;-)
>
> It’s not just that. XFree86 4, for example, is a memory hog compared
> to XF86 3, and Unicode support eats up lots and lots of RAM.

xserver-xfbdev based on kdrive still exists, right?
But AFAIK it lacks Amiga and Atari frame buffer device support. Fixing
that has been on my list for a looooong time...

>>I have less packages (incl.daemons) installed than 12 years ago, but the
>>system is still much slower.
>
> Hm, slower too?

Yep. No free RAM, so everything causes swapping.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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