30 May
2013
30 May
'13
1:38 p.m.
On 30 May 2013, at 15:32, "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com>
wrote:
On 05/30/2013 01:07 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
The GNU/Linux usage was because I use some lightweight-linux distros that contain nothing
GNU project.
On Thu, 30 May 2013, Dave McGuire wrote:
s/GNU//
Despite Stallman's efforts to coattail-surf, Linux is not a GNU thing.
On 05/30/2013 01:00 AM, Mouse wrote:
Agreed. GNU/Linux likes to be a bit...big. >> Part of the problem I'm looking at is
that you can get something
>> like a Raspberry Pi that will cost a fraction of what a Sun system
>> costs to run.
> The Raspberry Pi, while awesome for many reasons, is a fairly wimpy
> machine when you come right down to it, CPU-wise.
Compared to a SPARCstation of the SS2, IPX, etc era?
Yep. At least in a very non-scientific comparison. A
SPARCstation-IPX running NetBSD feels a lot more responsive than a
Raspberry Pi running Linux. I've run both, but not side-by-side.
Software "weight" probably has a lot to do with it.
Yes, modern *desktop* Linux is pretty fat. It's mostly in the desktop GUI stuff.
"Server" Linux (i.e., no GUI desktop environment) is pretty lean.
True. Server stuff is fairly lean. The kernel is still getting pretty damn big, though.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA