On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 07:21:26 -0600 "MARTINSON, GREGORY" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I am going to be bullheaded and take an old machine Pentium 166 with | 48 Megs of memory and make it work as a home server (samba, cups and | ftp as well as maybe a music player). I won't be installing tons of | software on it, but I do want to eek our every last ounce of | performance from an old beast.
As a warning... If you're planning to compile glibc, make sure you have a minimum of 300MBytes memory (that can include swap). I'm not sure of the exact figure needed for x86, but on sparc32 it's in the high 200s, which has caught a lot of people out. | Do any of you have general tips, hints or things to avoid in | developing such a system? For example, if I want every last ounce of | performance should I start with bootstrapping or is that not | necessary? Anyone know of a simple low-resource window manager? What | media players work well with low resources? What compilation make.conf | settings should I try? I'm quite fond of Fluxbox (go for the ~arch release) on slower systems. I'm also quite fond of Fluxbox on faster systems, but for different reasons. Media player wise, mplayer with all the USE flags turned off is quite small... You may also want to look at orpheus or mp3blaster. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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