#Dillo is moving off #GitHub, #self-hosting and mirroring to Codeberg and Sourcehut
on 02026-01-06discussion of #performance of old computers. anthk reports, “With a 486 and 16MB of RAM, you can run X at sane speeds, even FVWM in wireframe mode to avoid window repaintings upon moving/resizing them.
Next, TLS/SSL. WIth a 486 DX you can use dropbear/bearssl and even #Dillo happily with just a light lag upong handhaking, good enough for TLS 1.2. Under a 486, a 30-35? year old CPU. IRC over TLS, SSH with RSA256 and the like methods, web browsing/Gemini under Dillo with TLS. Doable, I did it under VM, it worked, even email and NNTP over TLS with a LibreSSL fork against BearSSL.” And accrual reports, “I did some multitasking recently on my iDX4-100 + 64MB FPM. I used NT4 with SP2 because the full SP6 was much slower. I could have a browser open, PuTTY, and some tracker music playing no problem. :)” A 486 is something like 11–46 Dhrystone MIPS.
on 02025-11-23