[arch-general] archlinux on old hardware

[Dimitrios Apostolou]

Hello list,

I just installed archlinux on a very old laptop of mine PIII at 500MHz 
with 128MB RAM. I am planning on using it as a desktop... I should mention 
two facts.

First is that I installed from CD succesfully without problems. I remember 
in the past the installer would fail with such amount of ram but it seems 
today's squashfs goodness is paying back... So what are the current 
minimum requirements?

The other is that I had trouble finding a truly lightweight X terminal 
(there were times when xterm was considered bloated ;) so I packaged 
myself rxvt. Most other distributions offer it so in case you decide to 
include it I attach the PKGBUILD.

I'm wondering, what's the oldest equipment you run archlinux on? Is it for 
desktop or server usage?


Thanks,
Dimitris
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pkgname=rxvt
pkgver=2.7.10
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="a really lightweight terminal for X"
options=(!libtool)
arch=(i686 x86_64)
depends=('libx11')
makedepends=()
optdepends=()
url="http://rxvt.sourceforge.net"
license=("GPL")
source=(http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rxvt/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz)
md5sums=('302c5c455e64047b02d1ef19ff749141')

build() {
  cd ${startdir}/src/${pkgname}-${pkgver}
  ./configure --prefix=/usr \
	--mandir=/usr/share/man \
	--disable-everything \
	--enable-shared \
        --enable-rxvt-scroll
  make || return 1
  mkdir -p ${startdir}/pkg/usr/share/terminfo
  export TERMINFO=${startdir}/pkg/usr/share/terminfo
  make DESTDIR=${startdir}/pkg install
}