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Topic: Damn' Slow Linux, DSL on a '486

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cas194

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Posted: June 27 2006,19:00

Hi!

I've got DSL running on a 100 MHz 80486 - just because I could!

It's working well and looks good, although it's far too slow to do very much .... but then, that wasn't the objective.

Next project: Version 7 UNIX.....

CAS

MrBear37

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Joined: Jan. 2004

Posted: June 28 2006,11:36

I have an old Toshiba Tecra CT4700. 486-33 with an 850 MB HD. read that Processor slower than yours.

It is slow to boot, BUT it also runs well once its up. At this moment I dont have DSL on it becaue it has no CD-drive.

It does however have Debian Woody on it. It is light and fast enough to do basically anything I want to save for playing graphically intensive games.

Why ? Because I was careful about the applications I chose for it. Fluxbox.. siag, abiword, xmms.. alot of stuff that is available for DSL. You need to take that box.. ditch anything that is not specifically LITE for the system you are using.

If you are selctive, your box will be everything you NEED ( not want) for it to do.

Peace !

Mark

AwPhuch

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Posted: June 28 2006,22:41

Neither of you mentioned how much RAM you have?

Brian
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ubl

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Posted: June 30 2006,03:39

A while back, I got an earlier version of DSL up and running on an Acer 486 with 32 megs of ram with a frugal install. True, it was running slow but this was amazing, as there was no way that, even win98 could run on it.

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