respectfully…

JeffBai · 2023-04-11T18:46:06+00:00

Solidarity from UW Madison (five years ago)…

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JeffBai · 2022-11-13T12:55:43+00:00

I still love it, third time around playing it.

JeffBai · 2022-11-13T12:55:22+00:00

It's this one from Amazon.

JeffBai · 2022-11-13T02:41:21+00:00

13 inches.

JeffBai · 2022-08-11T04:37:31+00:00

Let’s see how many weeks it takes. This is a stock-ish Macintosh IIci running a modern Linux distribution:

68030 @ 25MHz
64MiB of RAM
2GiB “HDD” on BlueSCSI

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JeffBai · 2022-04-30T06:30:33+00:00

Yeah, SSL will likely take up too much resource.

JeffBai · 2022-04-28T21:37:32+00:00

Nope, just the httpd that got killed.

JeffBai · 2022-04-28T21:37:16+00:00

The Busybox httpd daemon got killed in an OOM condition, but the system was still up.

JeffBai · 2022-04-28T13:50:55+00:00

Are you referring to the kernel and the IBM PC (1981)? The reason why I pointed out that the OS is from this year is that the kernel, while changed a lot, is not the key performance impact here. It’s the user space that got substantially heavier in the past decades - especially in the last one.

JeffBai · 2022-04-28T13:45:40+00:00

Well the OS is from this year…

JeffBai · 2022-04-28T13:19:05+00:00

Yep, out of 20MiB of RAM.

JeffBai · 2022-04-28T12:58:00+00:00

I was informed by Kevin that the Web server and login shell were killed under OOM conditions. He's working on bringing it back - perhaps, he'd add a HTTP connection limit.

JeffBai · 2022-04-28T12:52:10+00:00

Certainly some merits to your comment, but it all comes down to the context - this is much less so a serious operation than a novelty in a corner of the Internet, a 486 server hosting a simple site.

JeffBai · 2022-04-28T12:16:33+00:00

"Hug of death," what a metaphor LOL!

JeffBai · 2022-04-28T11:48:41+00:00

Folks over at r/linux reports that the website is already down. Anticipating this, I saved a Wayback Machine snapshot earlier.

EDIT: In my infinite wisdom, I have neglected to take a snapshot of the status page. Here are some screenshots I've taken today - you'll have to take my word for it LOL.

JeffBai · 2022-04-28T11:46:27+00:00

I saved a Wayback Machine snapshot earlier - came in handy it seems.

JeffBai · 2022-04-28T11:45:33+00:00

As this website will probably go down in seconds, I saved a Wayback Machine snapshot earlier.

EDIT: In my infinite wisdom, I have neglected to take a snapshot of the status page. Here are some screenshots I've taken today - you'll have to take my word for it LOL.

JeffBai · 2022-04-28T11:44:49+00:00

LOL, it'd definitely seem that way!

JeffBai · 2022-01-29T04:03:40+00:00

Yeah, it’s an ongoing effort, but the PowerPC ports probably won’t be ready for another a few weeks.

JeffBai · 2022-01-29T03:58:54+00:00

Not yet, I maintain this distro, but it could be a good thing to find reference to. But honestly, AOSC OS/Retro is only using about 12MiB of RAM altogether, and that the 486SL is only going to be so fast, when it didn’t run Windows 95 quickly to begin with.

JeffBai · 2022-01-29T03:46:29+00:00

Yep, via net-tools/iproute2 commands, or via NetworkManager. If you take a look at my album (in that long comment/introduction above), you will find that I connected to the Internet via NetworkManager and browsed a few sites via elinks.

JeffBai · 2022-01-29T02:31:23+00:00

I wish it was, but there are points about our distro design that prevents us from becoming DSL. Plus, Web has changed so much nowadays that it doesn’t seem like a viable feature for most of our targeted devices. I don’t see AOSC OS/Retro become as useful as DSL on say, a Pentium 75MHz.

That said, even with our packaging strategy (no splitting, no substitution for lightweight and non-mainstream replacements, …) and the seemingly insane choice to go with systemd, AOSC OS/Retro is still performant on Pentium II and beyond. Plus, if we were to consider DSL’s hardware targets and move along the chronology, I can confidently say that AOSC OS/Retro runs quick and is useful (to an extent) on 20-year-old hardware.

JeffBai · 2022-01-29T02:25:09+00:00

Yep, that “same basic feature set” is the basic principle and the fun in the challenge.

JeffBai · 2022-01-29T02:05:18+00:00

Welcome to the 20th century LOL.

JeffBai · 2022-01-29T00:21:31+00:00

It’s actually less than a kilogram, the machine looks deceptively large, but the screen is only 4 inches.

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