On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 17:44 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
--- Charles Curley <charlescurley(a)charlescurley.com>
wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 11:49:32PM +0100, Alan Cox
> wrote:
> > > * Related to the last, no simple caching
> software. The last I knew,
> > > there was no RPM analog to the Debian
> apt-cacher. This caches deb
> >
> > RPM doesn't need a specialist tool for this
> thankfully. Squid and similar
> > generic caching setups can handle it quite nicely.
> It is true we don't
> > have a package that does that setup in one go (or
> I've not found it
> > anyway).
>
> An excellent point.
>
> I don't know how long squid will cache a file; I
> assume that's
> configurable. apt-cache can be called (from cron) to
> purge only
> packages that have been superceded. So you can
> update machine A in
> January, and machine B in March, and if a package
> pulled in in January
> is still the current package machine B will get it
> from the local
> cache.
>
> Even so, a squid sounds better than my rsync setup.
>
>
> >
> > > * I prefer XFCE or similar lightweight desktops
> for these machines. I
> > > can get XFCE with xubuntu. I see no Fedora
> analog.
> >
> > Fedora includes xfce packages, they just aren't
> burned on the standard
> > CDs but are in the yum repository.
>
> True. Is there an XFCE only installation option?
> Absent an XFCE
> specific CD, that would require network access, and
> likely slow down
> installation time. Neither one is a major obstacle
> for most people in
> rich countries. For folks in poorer countries,
> either one could be a
> show stopper.
Charles,
Rahul wrote the following:
<quote>
Not that it makes a huge difference now but
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-February/msg000...
Rahul
</quote>
Take it for a spin if there is still time. A friend
of mine has two old machines in that situation, but I
still consider that even Xubuntu will not run on them
old PII with 64 MB ram :( Tried to boot Slitaz, but
it failed to boot :(, DSL and Austrumi work, but I
cannot get machines to identify the network and
connect.
Heh, I installed early versions of RH and Caldera on a 486 DX2/66 with
32 megs of memory and they ran like a charm. So much for the
good-ole-days. Of course I had to roll a new kernel for the 486, after
which the speed up was noticeable. <grinning> Ric
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