Hardware Talk :: Damn Small Linux Extreme edition(DSL-E)

Thanks Ron for the link

Kernel hacking is a current pipe dream of mine,as I still have lots to learn about the kernel. Lucky13 your post is on the mark,however I do notice that my memory usage stays low the cpu usage is incredibly high(even in dillo) What are the known bottle necks for old laptops? One neat trick I discovered for my gateway solo was to take the battery and dvd/floppy out. This gives my system a little more speed.(in firefox there was a slight lag when rendering pages. With out the dvd installed the webpages appear almost instantly,while before the pages would slowly be redrawn downward)I changed grub to start dsl with idebus=66 as well as dma-1. Since I have a dead battery I was thinking of designing a forced air intake system using the battery casings and access to the power system.any thoughts on this?This battery should come apart with about six or eight individual cells. Does anyone have any tech info on old gateway laptops? again thinks guys for the info.

Very interesting post lucky13 and not "non-dsl" at all.

Would you consider putting this in the wiki under "Reducing memory useage" or something?

One thing I would add is that if people insist on using firefox (unavoidable sometimes) then it pays to choke off its memory hogging as per my post http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....85;st=0

As I said I'm getting freezes with that ff on 512MB ram!!!

Thanks WDef thats a cool trick.(would that also applie to debian type hd installs?) My main concern with the solo 9100 366mb is the apperant cpu bottleneck. The memory is not really and issue. I traded an old IBM thinkpad(266mhz)and an old Toshiba(166mhz) for this "faster" Gateway Solo(366mhz). Big mistake I know. I did switch the hard drives from the old ibm with the newer gateway(those drives were the same size)I never had a cpu issue with the gateway firefox was much faster and compiling code with gcc was a breeze.Now when I compile something as small as libpcap this thing whines more than Bush when someone wants him to pulll out of iraq. Im thinking of disecting the 2.4 kernel and 2.6 kernel and seeing what I could mesh together to make things a little more punchier. Im still gonna keep jwm and use dillo. Does anyone have other suggestion I could try?

Since this is the DSL-Extreme, void your warranty thread... what kind of mods have you done(or would you do if you had the balls)My current project is extreme laptop cooling. Can anyone suggest a good source for really small fans?

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Im thinking of disecting the 2.4 kernel and 2.6 kernel and seeing what I could mesh together to make things a little more punchier. Im still gonna keep jwm and use dillo. Does anyone have other suggestion I could try?

What do you mean by dissecting and what do you intend to do with two kernels? "Mesh together" -- how do you intend to do that? And why? Many improvements from 2.6 are already backported in 2.4, and 2.4 retains a lot of legacy support dropped in 2.6. For the hardware you've described, there's really no justification for using a 2.6 kernel.

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