Hi Hermino, To be honest, compiling a kernel on 450 MHZ machine is kind of daunting :) I built a kernel package on an old Compaq that took over a day to complete, that was 900MHZ with a 256MB RAM.
But building a deb for a kernel on Debian is incredibly easy, but does require a very long compile process on an old computer. I am not sure if you could do it with qemu/deboostrap/et al on a faster computer... I have had some issues doing that sort of thing before... That said I agree fully. Compiling is generally extremely easy... unless you have to hunt for the depends, which is fairly simple if you know what you are doing. sudo apt-get install build-essential make sudo make install creating a debian package is a bit more intensive... though in recent versions there is that handy meta-package for it ubuntu-dev-tools (IIRC) Ubuntu is a super easy platform for development, though. So nice to sudo apt-get install lib/whatever/-dev You never know Fritz you might find that you like hacking your own computer a whole lot :) On 08/09/2015 06:37 PM, Herminio Hernandez, Jr. wrote: > Fritz, > > I would strongly encourage you getting down to the command line. It > will help you so much with Linux on PPC. I think once you get started > you will see that tasks like applying patches, building .deb files, > even compiling a kernel are not as daunting as they may sound. You > will definitely feel that you are more in control of your computing > freedom. > > On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Aere Greenway > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > On 08/09/2015 04:37 PM, Fritz Hudnut wrote: > > But, this JWM for PPC has been mentioned before, perhaps by > the time you have the time to do that, might be around when > all support for 12.04 is dropped . . . . It's "hard" to work > with a 450 MHz processor these days. > > Fritz: > > I know (thanks to your reporting) that PPC support (or lack of > such) is its own 'bag of worms', unfortunately. I am impressed > with your dogged determination in trying to solve the many > problems strewn in your path. > > But at least in the Intel world, I have a 450 megahertz HP Vectra > test machine, and it works with Lubuntu 14.04, 14.10, and now > (more recently) with Lubuntu 15.04 (15.04 tested-out better than > 14.10). > > It runs my MIDI music tests, including running Qsynth, Qjactctl, > Rosegarden, and Java. It played a demanding MIDI sequence without > a single under-run error in qjackctl being reported. > > That being said, it is a slow machine, that I would not recommend > to anyone. Its best use is probably for me as a minimum-system > test machine. But someone could use it, if they were motivated to. > > -- > Sincerely, > Aere > > > > -- Regards
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