Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 23:14:05 -0500 From: Justin Hibbits <chmeeedalf@gmail.com> To: Super Bisquit <superbisquit@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How does one minimize the base environment plus Xorg for lowend machines? Message-ID: <55213959-1A94-4F25-86CB-E502C61E3C6C@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin6Wq2MHyigDPoXxfkQmYZcb=84eqoKtd1OoJuR@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTin6Wq2MHyigDPoXxfkQmYZcb=84eqoKtd1OoJuR@mail.gmail.com>
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On Feb 11, 2011, at 11:07 PM, Super Bisquit wrote: > The G3 B&W has been volunteered as part of an effort to use a > Lombard- The > laptop has the same cpu- as a device for the visually impaired. I'm > currently running a build of orca and attempting to lessen the build > by > removing unnecessary build options. > The release is the 9.0-CURRENT recently announced on the mailing list. > The attempt of porting emacspeak to the machine failed when using an > old > port on a OpenBSD install. NetBSD was difficult to boot due to not > knowing > the proper boot commands. (If someone knows how to do this or can > show me > what I did wrong, I'll be glad to read.) > Tiny BSD seems to be optimized for i386 processors. Can this be used > on a > Lombard or a B&W with Xorg and the r128 driver? > One of the light "Box" desktop environments can be used or the cwm > from > OpenBSD and orca setup to run along with it. Take a look at src.conf(5). I read through that then went crazy with the WITHOUT_* options in my /etc/src.conf, to disable as much as I could for my G4 MDD. - Justin
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