Re: TDE and vintage computers

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Darrell Anderson via tde-devels wrote:

> These days my brain is entrenched in old fart elderly territory and I
> have my days exhibiting grumpy old man traits. I have been out of the
> loop for many years with this kind of development and tend to lose
> patience easily. That said, that I have built the latest TDE on vintage
> systems is remarkable.
> 
> Dare I say that the 14.1 builds are running on Pentium I/II single core
> systems with less than 512 MB of RAM and a 3.10.107 kernel? A tad slow?
> Yes, but everything functions and the slowness is mostly caused by PATA
> drives.

What is the benefit of all this? It consumes much more electricity for
nothing. Wouldn't it be better to build for example in i386 chroot on amd64
or VM? You can install then in the older system.

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