User Feedback :: How do you run DSL ?

I use DSL 2.1 on the following:

HD install on an old laptop.
Live CD to show off.
Embedded on a USB stick.

A DSL hd install is already minimalized for your pleasure.

It is possible to get similar performance with a minimal Debian or Slackware install but you will need to do some customizing with respect to the list of stuff that will be automatically installed into your computer.

Even so, if you wanted to use the TinyX/Kdrive/Freedesktop.org Xserver you would probably need to install them manually.

I am in agreement with the last comment about having to strip down the stuff during installation.

I am currently running Win95 on old PII 233Mhz machines. My companies information security people say remove the machine or upgrade it to W2K or XP. If we don't then they will turn off the network port to these systems. So we tell or management and their management what is going to happen. They don't want to spend the money on new systems (these computers were new somewhere around 1998). The machines are not useable once you load W2K, McAfee, and all the other required security software the browser is so slow it isn't worth using. All these things do is pull up a browser and run a small little Java applet. The operations folks that use them won't do without them and won't buy new computers either.

So I get the great idea, let's go to Linux. I started using Linux back in 1993. I have a blue million different distributions with my most favorite being Slackware and RedHat. The problem is that the last InfoMagic Developer's Resource set I have is from June of 1998. I have RedHat 7.3 and Fedora 4, etc. But they are either too old to be easy for others I work with to set up or they are too new and bloated to run effeciently on this old hardware. I tried loading Slackware 10.1 and choking it down plus several other minimalist distributions. Nothing worked well until I came across this distribution. It is lousy on documentation but that was fine. I got a simple distribution that loaded X, Firefox, and Java to display the applet. It boots fast and does the job I need. It seems pretty secure right out of the box. The guys I work with can install it and configure a system with little documentation. I highly recommend this distribution for the simple few things it does and does well.

I got A hd Install that I use for my main OS because it is faster and more stable than any windows on this machine. I like it and the install takes 5 min as apposed to the 40-90 min for win XP

I have the embedded install on a thumb drive. Works great (although I wish that it supported wifi with WPA security [at least I couldn't figure out how to get that working]).

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