Re: So Long and Thanks for All the Fish

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On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 17:44 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> --- Charles Curley <charlescurley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 11:49:32PM +0100, Alan Cox
> > wrote:
> > > > * Related to the last, no simple caching
> > software. The last I knew,
> > > >   there was no RPM analog to the Debian
> > apt-cacher. This caches deb
> > > 
> > > RPM doesn't need a specialist tool for this
> > thankfully. Squid and similar
> > > generic caching setups can handle it quite nicely.
> > It is true we don't
> > > have a package that does that setup in one go (or
> > I've not found it
> > > anyway).
> > 
> > An excellent point.
> > 
> > I don't know how long squid will cache a file; I
> > assume that's
> > configurable. apt-cache can be called (from cron) to
> > purge only
> > packages that have been superceded. So you can
> > update machine A in
> > January, and machine B in March, and if a package
> > pulled in in January
> > is still the current package machine B will get it
> > from the local
> > cache.
> > 
> > Even so, a squid sounds better than my rsync setup.
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > > * I prefer XFCE or similar lightweight desktops
> > for these machines. I
> > > >   can get XFCE with xubuntu. I see no Fedora
> > analog.
> > > 
> > > Fedora includes xfce packages, they just aren't
> > burned on the standard
> > > CDs but are in the yum repository.
> > 
> > True. Is there an XFCE only installation option?
> > Absent an XFCE
> > specific CD, that would require network access, and
> > likely slow down
> > installation time. Neither one is a major obstacle
> > for most people in
> > rich countries. For folks in poorer countries,
> > either one could be a
> > show stopper.
> 
> Charles,
> 
> Rahul wrote the following:
> <quote>
> Not that it makes a huge difference now but
> 
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-February/msg00005.html
> 
> Rahul
> </quote>
> 
> Take it for a spin if there is still time.  A friend
> of mine has two old machines in that situation, but I 
> still consider that even Xubuntu will not run on them
> old PII with 64 MB ram :(  Tried to boot Slitaz, but
> it failed to boot :(, DSL and Austrumi work, but I
> cannot get machines to identify the network and
> connect.  

Heh, I installed early versions of RH and Caldera on a 486 DX2/66 with
32 megs of memory and they ran like a charm. So much for the
good-ole-days. Of course I had to roll a new kernel for the 486, after
which the speed up was noticeable. <grinning> Ric

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