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Posted: Mar. 06 2006,01:02 QUOTE

So, I yanked out my dad's way old 133Mhz (oc'ed to 233Mhz) pentium 1 motherboard and started playing with it. It wouldn't load windows (even 98), so I popped a dsl 2 livecd in, and voila, life!
Seriously though, I am so amazed that the damn thing actually runs with 32Mb of RAM. Also, I installed to a 116 MEGABYTE harddrive that I yanked from an old X11 system...so now I've got roughly 70Mb of free space. Just think, I could put one whole cd (in mp3/ogg format) on the hard drive. Anyways, just wanted to know what the slowest processor speed that dsl has successfully installed on...
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Posted: Mar. 06 2006,03:17 QUOTE

I would have to guess that since DSL version 0.6 and newer now require a CPU that has a builtin floating point processor (486DX or higher) the minimum usable machine would be a

486DX 25Mhz CPU with 16MB of RAM

For DSL version 0.5.3.1 or older, you could even run DSL on a 486SX machine, as documented here:

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/486.html
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Posted: Mar. 06 2006,12:21 QUOTE

Quote (underdog5004 @ Mar. 05 2006,20:02)
Anyways, just wanted to know what the slowest processor speed that dsl has successfully installed on...


Im running dsl on an old toshiba laptop with a p75 (pentium 75) mhz processor, and 24mb ram, it runs fine, only firefox is a pain because its a memory and resource hog, so instead i use dillo for everything (nice and fast) and what i cant do with dillo i can usually do with opera, Opera runs a bit slow too but way better than firefox did and Opera lets me access sites with stricter browser requirements when needed.

I'd say i surf 95% dillo, 5% opera <-- when needed for stricter sites.

But hey it works for me :cool: and now this old laptop isnt just sitting in storage gathering dust anymore, im actually getting alot of work done with it. :laugh:
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