I completely agree with this, the oldest machines I see anymore are p2's & K6 chips.. Supporting basicly dead chips is a waste of resources.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/3/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Lea Gris</b> <<a href="mailto:lea.gris@noiraude.net">lea.gris@noiraude.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Jeff Bailey a écrit :<br><br>> 2) i486 for small / embedded systems like routers is an ideal target for<br>> µbuntu.<br><br>Agree with all the above including not cited.<br><br>><br>> Tks,<br>> Jeff Bailey & Matthias Klose
<br>><br>> [0] <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.0/criteria.html">http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.0/criteria.html</a><br>><br>> [1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_Pro">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_Pro
</a><br>><br>> [2] 37 seconds to load writer on a Pentium 3 750 with 192MB of RAM.<br><br>20 seconds to load oowriter2 on a Pentium 4E 3.0Ghz multithreaded with<br>512MB of RAM, 53MB raw disk access, reiserfs file system.
<br><br>hdparm -t /dev/hda<br>/dev/hda:<br>Timing buffered disk reads: 162 MB in 3.01 seconds = 53.88 MB/sec<br><br>All this with current up to date Dapper.<br>Linux coincoin 2.6.15-10-686 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Dec 27 18:42:30 UTC 2005
<br>i686 GNU/Linux<br>lea@coincoin:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo<br>processor : 0<br>vendor_id : GenuineIntel<br>cpu family : 15<br>model : 3<br>model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz<br>stepping : 3
<br>cpu MHz : 3007.911<br>cache size : 1024 KB<br>fdiv_bug : no<br>hlt_bug : no<br>f00f_bug : no<br>coma_bug : no<br>fpu : yes<br>fpu_exception : yes<br>cpuid level : 3
<br>wp : yes<br>flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge<br>mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe pni<br>monitor ds_cpl cid<br>bogomips : 6017.61
<br><br>processor 1 same à 0<br><br>All of this to show, openoffice load time should not show significant<br>difference bedween a medern system and old PentiumIII. (shame)<br><br>Furthermore, I also agree a distribution like Ubuntu should not try to
<br>be everything Linux could be. Splitting it as µbuntu, server, desktop<br>and so on, is ok if it serve developpment effort mutualisation in scale,<br>and it doesn't disseminate ressources and quality.<br><br>Dropping pre-i686 for Dapper+1 seems appropriate for workstations and
<br>high end servers versions of Ubuntu. It doesn't for rich embeded devices<br>or even terminal server (RTSP), There are still good use for old PC<br>hardware as good enough desktop diskless X terminal clients or even as
<br>diskless rich clients.<br><br>I'll try to do this rich diskless client things based on Ubuntu Live if<br>I can find time to learn enough about the setup.<br><br>--<br> Léa Gris - <a href="http://www.noiraude.net/">
http://www.noiraude.net/</a><br>() Campagne du ruban texte brut contre les courriels en HTML,<br>/\ contre les pièces jointes dans un format propriétaire.<br><br>--<br>ubuntu-devel mailing list<br><a href="mailto:ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">
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