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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