Other Help Topics :: pentium 100Mhz 8M memory and damnsmall-0.7.1

my computer is pentium 100Mhz and it has 8Mb memory and 420 Megabytes HDD.
does damnsmall-0.7.1 linux work with it?

8MB of RAM is too small for practical use in graphical X Windows mode.

You might be able to run DSL in text console mode (kinda like "MSDOS Mode" in Windows 9x).

Your best options are:

Get more RAM.

or

Try Basic Linux. It is not a livecd and it is harder to set up but it is a better choice for low memory computer systems.

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/baslinux/

Good Luck.

I have DSL 7.0 installed on a laptop with 8 meg ram 75mhz (90Mhz if turbo (ooooh)) 504meg hd and its deathly slow, in text mode it runs very quickly..im sure if you wanted to use it as a firewall applicance see SmoothWall then it might make that puppy scream (only prob is smoothwall doesnt have pcmcia support yet(but we are working on it))

Brian
AwPhuch

well, i increased mem to 32M and now I\am surfing internet on damn small linux, wery good system, i\ll have to put soundcard in so i can listen music...thanks anyway...=)

RAM is the key with Linux....more ram you have the faster/more responsive your system will become....

Brian
AwPhuch

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