Subj : Status check
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Paul Quinn
Date : Thu Jul 27 2017 18:00:32

Hi! Wilfred,

On 07/27/2017 04:25 PM, you wrote to Nicholas Boel:

 NB>> I've gone so far as trying out LXDE, XFCE, Linux Mint, Ubuntu
 NB>> (Cinnamon), and even Fluxbox on this thing when I was using it as a
 NB>> media server.. and I don't have one good comment about the
 NB>> performance once that GUI is added. ;(

 WvV> It's probably the lack of memory. Didn't you say it "only" has 256 MB? ;)

That was me.  I was speaking of my Puppy Linux vBox system, which is the 
intended target system (currently using CM II).  However initial source 
compiling tests will be conducted on a non-Fido Puppy with 512Mb RAM; I call it 
a 'shadow' system, as it will do nothing more than process "as-yet-unprocessed" 
inbound mail passed to it by the current CM II system.

OTOH, I'm wondering if Nick tried the Pi-3 release of Puppy.[shrug]
It's a GUI OS with user apps; disk image is 360Mb.  (When other Puppy versions 
run from CD, USB and [I presume] micro-SD, the entire OS loads into RAM.  I 
haven't looked but the Pi-3 version will probably be the same.)  Anyway... 
that's for him to try if he wants.

 NB>> So, I guess for now, keep me near the top of the list. If makefiles
 NB>> happen before I find a solution, great..

 WvV> Makefiles are on the top of my to-do list. ;)

Mmm... I was looking at that this afternoon.  You are quite welcome to complete 
that first.  :)

Cheers,
Paul.

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