Need a little advice for i386 user
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2018 8:55 am
Hi everyone,
I'm still dragging around a beautiful 10 year old ultrabook from Sony, a Vaio TX1HP with a 1.1Ghz Ultra low voltage Pentium M and RAM maxed out at 1.5GB.
Right now I have the original windows xp which it came with and rolling Linux Mint Cinnamon which runs stupidly good with the latest updates.
I've always been a Mac guy and when I found out GhostBSD I immediately fell in love with it.
Right now I have two images for my Vaio:
10.3 Release Mate
11.1 BETA1 (2017.08.29) Mate
After trying both in virtual machine, I have to say that I preferred the 11.1 beta (it looked more polished and somewhat slightly more performant) but the problem is that it doesn't have the pkg repos anymore, which leaves me with two choices:
1 - Using the GhostBSD 10.3 repo
2 - Using the latest FreeBSD repo
Which of those two would you recommend me doing?
Thanks!
P.S.: I know that from 11.1RC support has been dropped for i386, not holding any grudge, although it's seriously a pity since most of the netbooks around run on old 32-bit only Atoms, but I can perfectly see why it's such a pain to maintain all those repos and making sure everything works.
EDIT: out of curiosity, will you keep supporting and updating the 10.3 i386 repository? This might be something which would make me change my decision towards using 10.3.
Also, I've just tried the Xfce flavor of GhostBSD and holy moly, I'm liking it much more than MATE! Xfce has really come a long way since I first used it many years ago.
I'm still dragging around a beautiful 10 year old ultrabook from Sony, a Vaio TX1HP with a 1.1Ghz Ultra low voltage Pentium M and RAM maxed out at 1.5GB.
Right now I have the original windows xp which it came with and rolling Linux Mint Cinnamon which runs stupidly good with the latest updates.
I've always been a Mac guy and when I found out GhostBSD I immediately fell in love with it.
Right now I have two images for my Vaio:
10.3 Release Mate
11.1 BETA1 (2017.08.29) Mate
After trying both in virtual machine, I have to say that I preferred the 11.1 beta (it looked more polished and somewhat slightly more performant) but the problem is that it doesn't have the pkg repos anymore, which leaves me with two choices:
1 - Using the GhostBSD 10.3 repo
2 - Using the latest FreeBSD repo
Which of those two would you recommend me doing?
Thanks!
P.S.: I know that from 11.1RC support has been dropped for i386, not holding any grudge, although it's seriously a pity since most of the netbooks around run on old 32-bit only Atoms, but I can perfectly see why it's such a pain to maintain all those repos and making sure everything works.
EDIT: out of curiosity, will you keep supporting and updating the 10.3 i386 repository? This might be something which would make me change my decision towards using 10.3.
Also, I've just tried the Xfce flavor of GhostBSD and holy moly, I'm liking it much more than MATE! Xfce has really come a long way since I first used it many years ago.