Hey Danny!

Feb 25 11:57 07, Danny Ceppa wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 DC> What are you using to do that?  

Just a base Linuxie custom install.  bash, kbd, matroxfb (kernel), etc. 
Since last June I haven't bothered with GUI stuff.  Also put in type
setting software and graphical commandline apps as well as multimedia stuff
just for fun.  Compiler and friends.  The 486 is even leaner but everything
is there.  Screen shots?

----------------- EM64T Workstation -----------------
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root{at}sixtyfour:~# cat /mnt/kumalockasun/ttylinux/build/control/build
#
# Package: LILO
# Summary: boot loader
#
name()
{
        echo "lilo-22.7.3-2"
}

build()
{
        cd "lilo-22.7.3"
        make CC="$TARGETCC" CONFIG="-DBDATA -DDSECS=3 -DEVMS
-DIGNORECASE \
                -DLVM -DONE_SHOT -DPASS160 -DREWRITE_TABLE -DSOLO_CHAIN \
                -DVERSION" OPT="$CFLAGS" all
        mkdir -p "$DISTDIR/sbin"
        $INSTALL -s lilo "$DISTDIR/sbin"
}
root{at}sixtyfour:~# cat /mnt/kumalockasun/ttylinux/build/control/build
#
# Package: ncurses
# Summary: terminal handling library
#
name()
{
        echo "ncurses-5.6-1"
}

build()
{
        cd "ncurses-5.6"
        CC="$TARGETCC" CFLAGS="$CFLAGS" ./configure
--prefix=/usr \
                --disable-debug --without-cxx --without-cxx-binding \
                --disable-ada --disable-shared --libdir="/$TARGETLIB" \
                --build="$TARGET"
        make $JOBS
        mkdir -p "$DISTDIR/usr/share/terminfo"
        TERMINFO="$DISTDIR/usr/share/terminfo" progs/tic \
                -e ansi,linux,rxvt,vt100,vt200,xterm,xterm-color \
                misc/terminfo.src
}
root{at}sixtyfour:~#
-----------------------------------------------------

------------------------ 486 ------------------------
fido{at}thirtytwo:~$ ls -al
total 84
drwxr-x--- 15 fido fido 4096 Feb 15 22:10 ./
drwxr-xr-x  6 root root 4096 Feb  5 18:15 ../
-rw-------  1 fido fido 5246 Feb 25 07:23 .bash_history
-rw-r--r--  1 fido fido   17 Jan 27 01:08 .bash_profile
-rw-------  1 fido fido   35 Feb 20 20:56 .lesshst
drwx------  2 fido fido 4096 Feb 22 22:39 .links/
-rw-------  1 fido fido 4160 Feb 15 22:10 .viminfo
drwxr-xr-x  2 fido fido 4096 Jan 27 07:18 bin/
drwxr-xr-x  2 fido fido 4096 Jan 27 01:07 etc/
drwxr-xr-x  2 fido fido 4096 Feb 25 15:18 in/
drwxr-xr-x  2 fido fido 4096 Jan 27 08:19 log/
drwxr-xr-x  6 fido fido 4096 Jan 30 00:16 my-work/
drwxr-xr-x  2 fido fido 4096 Jan 27 01:03 nodelist/
drwxr-xr-x  3 fido fido 4096 Feb 25 15:00 out/
drwxr-xr-x  2 fido fido 4096 Jan 27 01:03 out.002/
drwxr-xr-x  2 fido fido 4096 Feb 25 11:03 out.005/
drwxr-xr-x  2 fido fido 4096 Jan 27 01:03 out.006/
drwxr-xr-x  2 fido fido 4096 Jan 27 01:03 out.tmp/
drwxr-xr-x  3 fido fido 4096 Feb  5 19:40 points/
fido{at}thirtytwo:~$
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Neat eh?


 DC> The page loading is quite a bit quicker with the 1800 Mhz system.  
 DC> The 
 DC> ME machine is only 433 Mhz.  It's a crawl on the 66 Mhz system!  

I believe you.  Never been an issue with any machine I have had.  The 486
(33MHz) keeps up.  I use the EM64T (3GHz dual core) to develop software for
the 486.  Works out perfectly ... so far.

 DC> I understand NASA is worried about it getting in the path of 
 DC> orbitting sattelites...  

Huh?  How low are they orbitting?

Life is good,
Maurice

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