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In article > ,
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.

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There's no such thing as a free lunch, but certain accounting practices can
result in a fully-depreciated one.

In article >,
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.