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condondo

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Registered: 2020-12-01

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best weather app for old Dell 386i Pentium 4 system

Appreciate any recommendations/tips!

Tolkem

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Registered: 2019-10-06

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Re: best weather app for old Dell 386i Pentium 4 system

Appreciate any recommendations/tips!

You didn't mention whether you want a GUI or CLI app nor what Q4OS version are you using: KDE or TDE? In any case, here are a few you might want to take a look at:

1. WeeWX

How to install http://weewx.com/docs/debian.htm

2. Meteo

To install

sudo apt-get install meteo-qt

3. Temps

To install follow instructions from here https://github.com/jackd248/temps

4. Bash-Snippets

To install follow instructions from here https://github.com/alexanderepstein/Bash-Snippets

5. Gis Weather

This one's an appimage, meaning you don't need to install it; download, make executable and run.

Also, there are quite a few ones already available from Debian's repos:

$ apt-cache search weather | sort | less
ansiweather - Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols
gkrellkam - GKrellM plugin that displays a periodically updating image
gkrellweather - A weather monitor plugin for GKrellM
kweather-trinity - weather display applet for Trinity
weathermap4rrd - script that generates picture network links utilization
weather-util - command-line tool to obtain weather conditions and forecasts
weather-util-data - optional correlation data for weather-util search feature

All of these can be easily installed with

sudo apt-get install weather_pkg_name

As you can see, there are plenty of choices so pick the one that suits your needs/tastes the best!
Hope this helps!

bin

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2016-01-28

Posts: 1,300

Re: best weather app for old Dell 386i Pentium 4 system

It depends on what you want. kweather-trinity is a status bar applet that you can confiugure to give you reports of current, very basic, information now.
That's not the same as a forecast service. Given the modest power level you are running on it may be better to use a web service via browser?

crosscourt

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Registered: 2017-05-07

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Re: best weather app for old Dell 386i Pentium 4 system

kweather-trinity is very easy on resources versus a forecast service and a better choice for a pentium 4 system.  Browser based service might also be a tough go with such an old processor. My Pentium D 3.4ghz struggles online.

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condondo

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Registered: 2020-12-01

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Re: best weather app for old Dell 386i Pentium 4 system

Thanks to everyone for the response.  Stay healthy!