Re: compact distributions for old equipment

[Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>]

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll keep them in mind for the future, but right
now I want to wait until someone suggests a real set of apps, suitable for
an actual grade in the sense that Rob wrote about, that I can try. My test,
plus the link you turned up (and there are a couple of others, too), is
sufficient proof of principle on the technical side -- now it's time for
someone to identify actual applications so this idea stays grounded in reality.

8bpp is the lowest standard graphics resolution mode. It's what I ran the
SVGA server in for the test I reported.

While the libraries and such that you've described are familiar to me, I
haven't heard of Electric Eyes. What is it, and how might I locate it?

At 03:50 AM 7/6/99 +0200, you wrote [in part]:
>As far as apps are concerned.
>
>What I might suggest is you download GTK+ libraries, imlib and some
>graphics libraries. You may want to add esound to that if some of these
>systems have old sound cards.
>
>Then take a few little apps that use these facilities. Electric eyes
>springs to mind.
>
>Whilst programs such as Electric eyes aren't the base set of apps you're
>looking for it'll give you a good idea of the performance since these
>apps, when written, will probably use these libraries.

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Ray Olszewski                                        -- Han Solo
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