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nadir

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## the new release

Mon Apr 18, 2011 8:19 pm

Refracta-6.0.4 xfce/icewm
I ran it under several conditions (on my main PC as a live-CD, in VBox and on my old PC).
I think i like it. Ram usage, according to ps_mem.py, is very good (~70MB).
I can't say have have figured out or used everything which is mentioned in the release notes yet.
(at least i finally checked /usr/local/bin ... )
looks and feel is good.
I run on really lousy hardware (partly), and you sure can recommend it to people who need a low-specs OS
(on my best PC, which is still low-specs with 1.6Gh it flies -when running live).
thumbs up from me.
nadir

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## Re: the new release

Tue Apr 19, 2011 9:00 am

no htop and no locate?
strange.
while htop if optional on a live-CD, i would consider locate to be substantial
(i am anything but good with find, had to search for the wallpapers, and no locate...did it manually, which took a while).
my thumb is still up. Very snappy.
fsmithred

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## Re: the new release

Mon Jul 04, 2011 6:28 pm

If I include locate on the live iso, will the system insist on running updatedb every time it boots?
nadir

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## Re: the new release

Tue Jul 05, 2011 9:58 pm

> fsmithred wrote:If I include locate on the live iso, will the system insist on running updatedb every time it boots?

From what i see and understand it does not get run during boot.
It is stored at /etc/cron.daily.
What i find in man and here:
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/56
does not make it sound as if it would run during boot (though its anything but clear. Most docus say: daily runs daily. Well, that i did know already. But when?).
I checked /var/log/boot and can't find anything which points to locate/updatedb.
I got it installed on all systems, and all boot in a reasonable time.
I wouldn't say its a must, but its a bit more easy than `find`.
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## Re: the new release

Thu Jul 07, 2011 12:23 pm

When I leave my machine running, updatedb would run early every morning. When I shut the machine off, it'll run shortly after booting up, which slows down anything I want to do. If I can hack it to run later after booting up, or do something else with it so it doesn't get in the way, maybe I'll add it.
nadir

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## Re: the new release

Fri Jul 08, 2011 4:27 am

> fsmithred wrote:When I leave my machine running, updatedb would run early every morning. When I shut the machine off, it'll run shortly after booting up, which slows down anything I want to do. If I can hack it to run later after booting up, or do something else with it so it doesn't get in the way, maybe I'll add it.

Ah, got you. I did not know. All my machines boot from 20 seconds to less than a minute (i don't use gdm or such). Thats more than ok for me, so i never checked.
But i got one question: how did you figure out that it runs during boot? I searched more than just a wee bit, but could not figure it out.
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i guess i would simply remove it from daily.cron, and run it before i use it (before i use it i run updatedb anyway, so its not a change for me). Not sure if that will work though. Gotta try when i am less confused (i fiddled with my router, and after that with html, so right now i am pretty sure i would bork it). Let me know what you can come up with. Please.
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## Re: the new release

Fri Jul 08, 2011 1:00 pm

It's not something I figured out, it's just an observation. If I had a machine turned off and then turned it on, updatedb would run sometime in the first few minutes after booting up. I don't think I have locate installed on any of my running machines right now, so I can't really test it. It might be on a hard drive that's in the third box, and it just needs to be connected and booted. Have to remember to test that before the next build.
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