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Re: good freedom-respecting computer for running Debian

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>>> Is there any good low-hassle freedom-respecting reasonable price
>>> reasonable performance computer platform for running Debian these
>> Define your notion of "reasonable" for price and for performance.
> Performance-wise, for the laptop, I'd like aptitude not to compute
> (search for a dependencies solution) for much more than a few seconds
> each time I press the "+" key to upgrade a package, while having
> stable, stable-security, testing and sid in my sources.list
> My Core2 Duo clearly is far slower than that.

Interesting.  I don't use aptitude interactively and don't have `sid` in
my sources, but  haven't noticed any significant difference in batch
use between my core2 duo and a more recent quad core i7.  AFAIK the
constraint solving involved in this is not parallelized so it's
constrained by single thread performance (and potentially RAM
thrashing), which hasn't changed drastically since the core2 duo days,
sadly, in my experience :-(

> For the desktop, I want to compile LibreOffice, with maximum
> debugging. Realistically, this is a big job, so won't take mere
> minutes, but let's say be within the same order of magnitude than a
> new amd64 machine?

Ah, right, for that kind of job you want many cores, so a core2 duo will
definitely let you down :-)


        Stefan

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