User Feedback :: Ideal machines to run DSL on?

I've noticed that through personal testing that you cant go really slow (Im talking 233 MHz Tillamook Pentium I, It runs but it feels slow). I mean, even the windows xp installed on that thing runs faster, which is odd. Im running from a regular hdd install (Non-Frugal). Should I try anything else? Like a frugal install? Live-CD Running isnt exactly fun, lol. Im going to try running to the ram (I have 160MB installed, im pretty covered lol). Post your ideas on ideal machines/setups to run DSL on, because I might buy a DSL-Specific machine in the near future (like a VIA Eden or something).

Dude... How much ram are you running...

I have a P166mhz with 96mb and it runs great. I had a frugal install until I messed it up, and now it is a standard install. It still runs great, although I think the frugal ran a little quicker.

Dude, I am doing things I could never do in Windows 2000 or NT on this system. Are you sure XP even runs on that 233mhz. XP is a total resource hog. DSL isn't...

DSL is by far the best OS version of Linux because of the low resources. DSL is better than PuppyLinux or FeatherLinux... I have tried both of those and DSL is by far better. I am a true DSL fan now and will be contributing to them.

If you are running slow, you need more ram. Bring it to 96 to 128, I bet you will love it then. Hell, XP can't hardly do anything without at least 128 to 256mb...

Try turning DMA on for your hard drive.

Either boot up with command:

dsl dma

or type:

sudo su
hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda

from a terminal window. This assumes that your hard drive is located at devicename hda

P.S. If you have 160Megs of RAM then try the toram option on in the menu.lst of the /boot/grub menu

Yah the firefox on a 233Mhz will cause it to spike out processor usage while its bringing it up...thats just because FireFox takes 15-16Megs of RAM to fire up..

Try the dillo..it will pop right up, it may not have all the bells and whistles of FireFox..but man its fast!

Brian
AwPhuch

I have a P-III 450mhz, 512mg-RAM 12g-HD and with DSL on it, it runs CIRCLES around my AMD-1600, 512mg machine that runs SuSE 10.

And my AMD machine is at least 30% faster then it was the day I bought it with XP on it, 6 years ago.

I have booted it on HP's, Dell's, Gateway's and about 5 or 6 no-name's that had from K-6 to P-I chips in them and as little as 64mg of RAM.

DSL is the..(almost cursed)..Bomb. :-)

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