Debian on 16mb ram intels

2000-09-16 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
How can I use dpkg on 16mb box with much software installed ? '(Reading database' step takes awfully lot of time. Nicing -20 doesn't help much. Is there any low-RAM-usage version of dpkg or some other technique can be used to lower its memory needs ? Please CC: me.

Re: [RFC] Suggestion for package ordering

1999-12-29 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 09:25:13AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: Is this popularity-contest really necessary. What about a script which analyses FTP-servers log-files and counting how often a package was downloaded? Running this script on the main mirrors would make a reasonable statistic.

Re: Slashdot colours (was Re: Debian Linux vs BSD)

1999-10-29 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 03:57:58PM +, David Wright wrote: I frequently see references to Slashdot here, and when I point my browser at them, the page is always rendered in grey/dark grey on black. Am I doing something wrong? My usual workaround is (because I run netscrape with -install)

Re: Sun goes fully open source! [OT]

1999-10-27 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 02:50:08PM -0500, Brad wrote: On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, J Horacio MG wrote: And that is important. I believe M$ already released a Unix version of outlook ... give them time and they'll do the same with M$ office; if by then, there's not a good, well supported, better

Re: Sun goes fully open source! [OT]

1999-10-27 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
/etc so my 500bookmarks are always available wherever i may be. only thing i'd chjange about netscape is make different binaries for each app(composer/navigatgor/mail/news) so if one crashes it doesnt bring all of em down. nate On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: We shouldnt

Re: Very basic question

1999-10-24 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 02:23:22PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: Hi all, What is com1 called? I thought it was /dev/cua1 but I know it snow /dev/ttyS something...help please as my X setup is taking forever. If there's a URL for this info, please do not hesitate to send it and I'll rtfm. com1

Re: New Kernel: make-kpkg vs. make bzLilo

1999-10-20 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 01:12:00PM +0200, Ingo Reimann wrote: Hi, can anybody tell me, what do do, if i don't want to do the complicated debain way to install a new kernel? in former times (SuSE =6.1 ) i got the sources, and did the make menuconfig make dep make clean make bzLilo