ARM64 vs AMD64

[Liam Proven]

On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 at 08:50, Grizzly <Real_Grizz_Adams at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Old Ram "maybe" cheap (some is not) but old Motherboards only allow so much,
> and old ram only comes in smaller sizes

Fair.

I have a Vaio P subnetbook that's maxed out at 2GB. I sold on my
Toshiba Satellite Pro A300 because while 4GB was cheap, 8GB of DDR was
going to cost roughly what the laptop did.

> >Which does not work. I _did_ check before I asked, you know. 403 error.
>
> I did_check_also (and downloaded FossaPup) before posting, the list I posted
> was a copy from there, I've just tested again and stll there (see attanch
> image)
>
> try
>
> https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/puppylinux.com.html
>
> it should show if a site is down (or unreachable local)

I tried such a site, too. The DNS record is there, it resolves, so it
said it was up. But the entire site just returns a 403 error, so it's
not _really_ up for me.

> >The original Puppy isn't based off Ubuntu. Barry Kauler did do a test
> >build based off it, but the main distro was independent, AFAIK. He
> >retired in 2013:
>
> I think that refers to the forking to Woof-CE from the Woof?

It's more general than that.

Puppy Linux was a 1-man project. The guy's name is Barry Kauler and he
built the whole distro single-handedly. He retired in 2013 and
announced that that was the end of the line for Puppy Linux.

He was a Win98 user and never saw the need for login security, which
is why Puppy Linux always ran as root and only root. That's why I did
not use Puppy Linux, even though otherwise I liked it.

But apparently the community forked the tool Kauler wrote to generate
Puppy builds from other distros, and they have continued.

For comparison:

"Corenomial", the sole maintainer of CrunchBang Linux -- a minimalist
distro I really liked -- quit. He said there was no point as modern
low-end hardware ran a full-fat distro well, IIRC.

He invited the community to continue, but not using the same name. It
did, as BunsenLabs Linux, which hewed very close to #!.

Then some _other_ community members forked it again, calling it
CrunchBang++. They made more dramatic improvements.

The BunsenLabs folks were aggrieved as they'd avoided the name
completely. CB++ did better as they were willing to make more drastic
changes.

BTW: both offer 32-bit versions.

Ah well. Here in the former Communist Bloc I am fairly accustomed to
sites refusing to serve me content. No big loss.


> Sorry to hear that can you run Tor or Tails to get around that?

Life's too short.

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Odd rider, but somehow it got through the mailing list. Yes, I see it. Ah well.

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