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Originally posted by smitty3268 View PostDistro optimized for machines with < 64MB memory over normal machines that 99.9% of the user base will have -> user abandons and consequently installs a better distro.
See how that works? Everyone gets to pick what works best for them.
That's right, it isn't.
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Originally posted by curaga View PostSwap storm -> install times measured in the hours -> user abandons install and consequently Debian.
See how that works? Everyone gets to pick what works best for them.
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Originally posted by Ibidem View PostDebian packages are an ar archive (same as static libraries), containing 2 compressed tarballs: the first has metadata, the second has the package content. I think they want to move from tar.gz to tar.xz for these two tarballs.
The current default is still gz, as the package must explicitly pre-depend on an appropriate dpkg version to use anything else (>=1.10.24 for bzip2, >=1.13.25 for lzma and >=1.15.6 for xz). As the oldest still supported dpkg version (1.15.8.12 in squeeze) fully supports xz, the discussion is about dropping that requirement and making xz the default.
Also please note that the default for gz and bzip2 is to compress using -9, but the default for lzma and xz is to compress using -6, so unpacking an xz-compressed deb will only require 9 MiB RAM, not the 64 MiB RAM mentioned several times in this thread. That means that Debian would require approximately 32 MiB RAM to install, which I don't think is too onerous, especially considering that the official hardware requirement already is 64 MiB.
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Originally posted by curaga View PostSwap storm -> install times measured in the hours -> user abandons install and consequently Debian.
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Originally posted by AJenbo View PostI still know a company that uses floppies as a backup medium for there accounting....
We kept them... who knows, we still got some USB floppy drives (but only 3.5 inch ones)!
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I still know a company that uses floppies as a backup medium for there accounting....
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Originally posted by RealNC View PostActually, it's 35.915 floppies.
@curaga I almost forgot about that! I think I managed to format some floppies with 1,72MB back in the 90's but I think there were some consequences to that. Can't remember what it was. I'm glad floppies died a long time ago
@AJenbo I never saw a drive that was compatible with them, although all my PCs had that option in the BIOS. Come to think of it I never even saw a 2,88MB floppy for sale.
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Originally posted by RealNC View PostActually, it's 35.915 floppies. 3.000 floppy disks only contain 4GB.
Yes, this comment serves no real purpose whatsoever... :-P
P.s. what ever happened to 2.88MB floppies?
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