Posts by Pigeon Post 8 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Sep 2019
...(hypothetically) contracts, laws and regulations were different, such that:
+ everyone's "obsolete" non-Win11-compliant hardware ended up at M$ offices globally
+ M$ were to foot the bill for all replacement "refresh" hardware
+ invoices for remediation costs and lost time caused by software "upgrades" were sent to Redmond.
Purely hypothetical speculation of course, since accountability is old hat. But the mental exercise is somewhat satisfying.
This.
A Gartner researcher I once knew cheerfully reminded people that projects currently in delivery are 'legacy' by definition. He followed that up by saying "Another definition of legacy software: the programmer is dead or should be".
Because of 'agendas', Manglement conveniently forget the 'ilities' - usability, security, scalability, availability/reliability, manageability/maintainability, recoverability, and so on. All significant parts of total cost of ownership - ignore at your peril.
There don't seem to be many actual _users_ here, so here's my experience...
Wanting to host a few network applications back in 2021 (lockdowns, eurgh), I obtained a cheap thin client from eBay, and researched the small Linux distros. Very impressed with TC, although it took a while to get my head round how it manages everything - so different from mainstream distros. But the web info is tremendous - hat-tip here to https://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/Linux/ who shares a fantastic amount of useful info to help with both hardware and OSs.
So for the past 3 years, this kit has run 24/7 (minus hols) hosting a DNS proxy server that sinks dodgy web addresses, and vTuner to re-enable my Denon internet radio:
- HP T520: 1.2GHz 2-core, 4GB RAM, 16GB Flash storage (6 Watts, less than my router)
- tinycoreplus 12.0
- dnsmasq 2.55
- Python 3.6 with small custom scripts (~37MB)
- tinyX (~28MB, for initial setup)
...which together use - wait for it - 180KB ram and 2.9GB free disk. No swap space needed with such small memory requirements.
But I'd agree with the commentards above - TC is for niche use. If you want to use "conventional" mainstream applications like web browsing, watch videos, do CAD, write snazzy documents, etc, use a fatter box (T620?) and a "conventional" distro. Wonder how it goes on a 13th gen PC?
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