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HTF Did We Get Onto This Topic?
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Joe Bramblett, KD5NRH > wrote: (Matthew Russotto) wrote in et: > >> Try Debian or Ubuntu sometime. > >Got the Kubuntu live and install CD images sitting here, and I've played >with the live image a bit, but I doubt it'll ever make it onto this machine >due to some annoying hardware issues. (The hardware...or more accurately, >the firmware's fault, not linux's) > >Looks like it'd be great to have around though...any experience running it >on an older (233 or maybe a 266 if I still have one around) machine? I tried Ubuntu on an older machine (333, I think, with not much memory) and it made molasses look fast. That machine was having problems anyway, though, so it might not have been a fair test. -- There's no such thing as a free lunch, but certain accounting practices can result in a fully-depreciated one. |
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HTF Did We Get Onto This Topic?
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Scott en Aztlán <newsgroup> wrote: > >void main (void) >{ > > for (; > { > malloc(4096); > } >} > >Show me an OS that won't go to **** when you run this program. [sauron:/tmp] russotto% cat foo.c void main (void) { for (; { malloc(4096); } } [sauron:/tmp] russotto% cc foo.c -o foo foo.c: In function `main': foo.c:2: warning: return type of `main' is not `int' [sauron:/tmp] russotto% uname -a Darwin sauron.local 7.9.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.9.0: Wed Mar 30 20:11:17 PST 2005; root:xnu/xnu-517.12.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc [sauron:/tmp] russotto% ./foo |& head *** malloc: vm_allocate(size=8421376) failed (error code=3) *** malloc[1116]: error: Can't allocate region *** malloc: vm_allocate(size=8421376) failed (error code=3) *** malloc[1116]: error: Can't allocate region *** malloc: vm_allocate(size=8421376) failed (error code=3) *** malloc[1116]: error: Can't allocate region *** malloc: vm_allocate(size=8421376) failed (error code=3) *** malloc[1116]: error: Can't allocate region *** malloc: vm_allocate(size=8421376) failed (error code=3) *** malloc[1116]: error: Can't allocate region -- There's no such thing as a free lunch, but certain accounting practices can result in a fully-depreciated one. |
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