[arch-general] archlinux on old hardware

[Nicolas Bigaouette]

I'm using Arch on a old Sony Vaio: pentium II 200MHz with ~64MB of ram. It
is running LXDE. It is slow to boot, but I suspend without problems (its up
since a couple of month with suspend+resume each morning).
It is running slow, but this machine is now my alarm clock, and it works
perfectly streaming mp3 over wireless internet.

I think I have opera on it, but don't ask too much for web surfing...

Else, Arch is great! ;)

2009/9/17 Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>

> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Daenyth Blank <daenyth+arch at gmail.com<daenyth%2Barch at gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 17:04, Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis at gmx.net>
> wrote:
> >> The other is that I had trouble finding a truly lightweight X terminal
> >> (there were times when xterm was considered bloated ;) so I packaged
> myself
> >> rxvt. Most other distributions offer it so in case you decide to include
> it
> >> I attach the PKGBUILD.
> >
> > rxvt is available in the AUR (which you can read about on the wiki).
> > The repos have mrxvt and rxvt-unicode packaged as binaries.
>
> And I think you might be able to rebuild rxvt-unicode without perl
> support, making it lighter
>