|| Phlog 12 - Old Computer Challenge 		|| 
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|| Initial Post 6-30-2023 || OpenBSD Thinkpad 	||
|| Update	7-4-2023  || OpenBSD iBook	||
|| Update 2	7-5-2023  || OpenBSD Thinkpad   ||



HTTP Link to Solene's Post: https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-06-04-old-computer-challenge-v3.html



G4 iBook setup for the challenge:
  - ppc 1.33Ghz
  - 256Mb RAM
  - 20Gb HD
  - 1024 x 768

+ OS
  - OpenBSD 7.3

+ Window Manager
  - fvwm - lightweight, fairly easy to customize

+ Shell
  - ksh

+ Terminal
  - roxterm
  - xterm

+ Browser(s)
  - Netsurf - Appears to be the best bet for a gui browser off the hop; fairly quick, somewhat compatible
  - Lynx along with w3m will be the terminal browsers I probably rely on the most
  - Badworlf - Slooooooow on this particular machine
  - YouTube - minitube - https://openports.pl/path/www/minitube

+ Mail
  - TBD (Read: I was overly ambitious and tried to use Evolution which made the PPC inside this iBook burn white hot)
  - 7/4 - Sylpheed - seems to work fairly well and connects without issue

+ Calendar/Address book
  - calcurse ?
  - simpleagenda ?
  - gsimplecal ?

+ IRC
  - Hexchat for joining #oldcomputerchallenge on libera.chat

+ RSS
  - akregator(Unless it's just for KDE?)
  - It may just be easiest to use an account on https://ttrss.sdf.org/ 

Other notes and quagmires:

the airport card is not working so a $6 EDiMAX USB dongle to the rescue.  It worked out of the box with home and work wifi, which was a welcome surprise!


To-Do:

+ GPG
+ Test with public wifi - I have my doubts the terminal browsers and Netsurf will work well with the captive/portal pages some public wifi utilizes.
+ Figure out mail -> Leaning toward mutt or Claws
+ Calendar -> I'm in the midst of moving from Google calendar to ProtonMail which will be interesting.
+ JPilot ->  What goes better with an old computer challenge?  An Old PDA, clearly.
+ Music - figure out a way to stash at least a small amount of music locally and play it without cratering the CPU.
  - amused? (https://projects.omarpolo.com/amused.html)


What works:



What doesn't: