Running Debian on a 32MB RAM Single Core ARM SBC

Re:Running Debian on a 32MB RAM Single Core ARM SBC by flatiron on Friday January 01, 2021 @12:22PM (#25604793)

I used a 486 66dx2 until 2001 when I went to college. FreeBSD was by far and away the winner on that thing. Had 20 megs of RAM and a 2.2 gig hard drive. Ran X and WordPerfect and Netscape in Linux compatibility better than natively in Slackware. Got me through high school with no problems (had to buy an external modem as the one it came with was a winmodem) No clue the current state of things though.

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Re:Running Debian on a 32MB RAM Single Core ARM SBC by anthk on Friday January 01, 2021 @02:09PM (#25605776)

You could browse the web perfectly back in the day, and Nethack ran like a charm, too :).

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Re:Running Debian on a 32MB RAM Single Core ARM SBC by dleslie on Friday January 01, 2021 @05:46PM (#25608068)

The web loaded and rendered faster because Javascript was used sparingly, if it was used at all. XMLHTTPRequest didn't become a thing until 1999 and didn't catch fire until later, and so async requests just didn't happen.

For a short window of time we were using 1px flash objects to act as an async intermediary...

Yeah, I miss the static web.

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Re:Running Debian on a 32MB RAM Single Core ARM SBC by anthk on Friday January 01, 2021 @06:07PM (#25608263)

Yeah, I know. I still use Dillo because almost everything is usable. at least fora, news sites and such.

Except this site, which I find atrocious having to use JS in order to search. I use DDG/Google on just the domain (site:news.ycombinator.com) and call it done.

But well, no mpg123's unless being played at a reduced band (11MHZ, mono). If converted to mp2, the files would be bigger, but playable at highest quality.

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Re:Running Debian on a 32MB RAM Single Core ARM SBC by dleslie on Friday January 01, 2021 @07:58PM (#25609120)

How do you feel about NetSurf? I still prefer Dillo, but NetSurf looks promising.

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Re:Running Debian on a 32MB RAM Single Core ARM SBC by anthk on Saturday January 02, 2021 @08:29AM (#25612713)

Too crashy (I use v4.0), and slower on rendering than Dillo, by far.

Also, I can't set the User Agent to anything else, in order to fix rendering errors. For example, the PSP one, still supported on tons of sites. Or the first Opera Mini releases, pre v5.

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Re:Running Debian on a 32MB RAM Single Core ARM SBC by flatiron on Friday January 01, 2021 @06:09PM (#25608283)

I wasn’t a huge net hack fan but I had half a dozen mud accounts on all the local BBSs. I was quite the ladies man. Eagle Scout band dork BBS MUD man.

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Re:Running Debian on a 32MB RAM Single Core ARM SBC by anthk on Friday January 01, 2021 @06:52PM (#25608624)

They are still alive, altough I prefer roguelikes on local now; and, for something close, IF and a Zmachine interpreter. Netplay? Just quick matches with my SO on an emulator for 90's machines, or an adventure being played together, solving puzzles.

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Re:Running Debian on a 32MB RAM Single Core ARM SBC by flatiron on Saturday January 02, 2021 @04:07PM (#25616537)

What roguelikes do you recommend?

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Re:Running Debian on a 32MB RAM Single Core ARM SBC by anthk on Sunday January 03, 2021 @09:53AM (#25622072)

Slashem, DCSS, OmegaRPG...

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