I like "Swiss Army Chainsaw" says it all doesn't it! I placed DSL on a standard CD with the base windows system. Everytime I crash Windows, I used DSL to wipeout the windows directory and the files in the root directory (backed up of course) and just copy the CD copy of the Windows to the drive. Takes about 3 minutes total. Sure beats loading it up from scratch! ah, but if I could just get the parr port scanner to work with Linux...
Quote (underdog5004 @ June 01 2006,16:28)
I use an old box to serve music to my 11-speaker stereo system. Works well, even though it's a 550Mhz 64Mb RAM Box
I have an identical machine with a slightly faster celeron coppermine @ 566MHz, and 32MB of memory. DSL was the only distro that I could install on it (from which, I expanded it into a Frankenstein: on my system, the S has now come to stand for 'sloppy', because I forgot to use a package manager and installed everything from source. Ah well, I can fix that later, I plan to rebuild from my system using the pkg-utils from crux, to allow for package admin.)
Not even Arch Linux could boot for an installation in 32MB, so there's no way I'll be replacing the OS anytime soon. (Works like a charm with the glibc and gcc from Ubuntu 5.04 too. A little more bloated than the standard DSL perhaps, but still within reasonnable limits, aside from the time I compiled with 'g++ -O20'.)I have been wanting to do some Xterminal stuff so my kids could get more out of their old laptops. I have a Compaq Armada 7800 pII 266 96M ram. I installed kdm and set it up to allow connections then I installed DSL on my son's Panasonic CF-25 Toughbook PI 133 24M ram. Both are regular hd installs. Under normal conditions the CF-25 is so slow it is painful. It is as slow as a 486 so doing anything graphical is a nightmare. Anyway on the CF-25 I start the Xfbdev with the -ac option and I am presented with a login on my Armada and I am now using the cf-25 as an Xterminal. Things aren't super fast but the app server is only pII 266 and my network is only 10mbps and I share a connection with my wife over a dialup line using a 486 and freesco as a router.
Using an Xterminal is not that super in and of itself but getting it going with such a small OS and on such limited hardware (and still be useful) is something. This CF-25 would not be surfing at all otherwise.*points to previous post*
