On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 21:01:55 +1100 "Hamish Moffatt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 12:46:36AM +0100, Philippe Seidel wrote: > > Well I'm using a PII 350 for almost four years now and it serves me > > perfectly. > Well, don't get offended because I said your computer was old. > Debian has a lot of packages these days and as a result dpkg takes a > lot of time to process the package list. It's really noticeable on > slower CPUs. I have a K6-2 350 here and the dselect Select screen > takes 6+ seconds to appear with a couple of apt-get sources for > unstable. I have two 486 machines at work (one is a time server and clock, the other is a samba server for a couple of non important file types) I don't use dselect; rather I simply apt-get install packagename and it takes up to a minute or two to do its thing. That sounds like a lot, but all good sysadmins can task-switch.... its not like you sit and wait for a command to complete.
