> On Wednesday 04 December 2013 06:21:46 you wrote: >> All, >> >> Do you have experience with running Trinity on older hardware? >> >> I have a PI and a PII. For years I ran KDE 3.5.10 on both. While >> hardly the fastest hardware, and 3.5.10 hardly the snappiest >> desktop environment, the system was usable. Trinity R14 on both >> systems is almost unusable. Starting Trinity takes a minute or two. >> Opening konsole takes 7-10 seconds. Opening a preloaded konqueror >> takes 20-25 seconds. >> >> I realize free/libre software never truly supported older hardware >> despite claims otherwise and developers instead move relentlessly >> onward with bleeding edge hardware. Still, because of the many >> improvements I would think Trinity R14 would fare better, at least >> as good as 3.5.10. >> >> Any ideas? Any help? >> >> Darrell > > I uderstand the concepts of this thread, that said PI, PII, any box that > sucks energy, do not need supporting, I know you have some :-) I have > some, they run the software from the same era is great..which isn't all > that usefull anymore for me. Firewalls and various services run ..but > back to the 'to much energy use' issue. > > > At my LUG we used to reuse all sorts of older boxes, give them away. NO > more. Energy consumption is a bigger part of the decision tree, > smartphones are way more powerfull for what consumers want, business's > will have newer hardware and the $$ to manage it. > > YMMV, but as a project I would draw the support line closer to now. > > -- > Peace, > > Greg Well, you are very much correct on the watts/performance issue, I look at it this way. Your average PII/PIII is about as powerful as some of the ultra-efficient Arm-based SBC devices now available for Linux users. If TDE can run well on PII/PIII hardware, then it will likely run well on those very efficient Arm-based systems as well. Tim