DSL is fantastic!


Forum: User Feedback
Topic: DSL is fantastic!
started by: sienaworld

Posted by sienaworld on Dec. 21 2005,15:59
Hi All,

I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who has put in time and effort to produce such a fantastic Operating System.

DSL has saved me from throwing away perfectly good hardware that is just not up to running a Linux desktop e.g. SUSE and such like.

DSL has given me hours of fun and will continue to do so. I tried other small Linux distros but DSL is the 'lightest' and fastest on my hardware -- isn't Dillo great!?!

My system is:

AMD K6-2 500Mhz
128Mb RAM (64 + 32 + 32)
1Gb Hard Drive (using frugal install leaves around 1300Mb free!)
2Mb Matrox Graphics Card
Ancient CDROM drive (2x or 4x I think)
10/100Mbps LAN card (NE2000)
USB 1.1 port

many thanks once again & may everyone have a happy Christmas and a fantastic New Year!

Peter.

Posted by AwPhuch on Dec. 21 2005,17:54
Wow!  That hardware is a ferrari for DSL man!

Welcome to the Revolution!!!

Brian
AwPhuch

Posted by MethodOne on Dec. 22 2005,00:33
I have a Compaq laptop with similar specs:

500 MHz AMD K6-2
64MB RAM
6GB hard drive
24x CD-ROM drive
Lucent Winmodem (works with DSL 2.0 or later)
4MB shared Trident CyberBlade graphics
PCMCIA 3Com Megahertz 10/100 network card (original owner of the laptop gave me it)
USB 1.1 port

I have yet to get a new PCMCIA wireless card, 128MB RAM, and an installation of the latest DSL.

Posted by AwPhuch on Dec. 22 2005,06:16
Quote (MethodOne @ Dec. 21 2005,19:33)
I have a Compaq laptop with similar specs:

500 MHz AMD K6-2
64MB RAM
6GB hard drive
24x CD-ROM drive
Lucent Winmodem (works with DSL 2.0 or later)
4MB shared Trident CyberBlade graphics
PCMCIA 3Com Megahertz 10/100 network card (original owner of the laptop gave me it)
USB 1.1 port

I have yet to get a new PCMCIA wireless card, 128MB RAM, and an installation of the latest DSL.

DSL will fly on that rig!

Brian
AwPhuch

Posted by MethodOne on Dec. 22 2005,16:01
It does!  I use it for quick surfing and listening to the streams on SHOUTcast.
Posted by linux_gal on Dec. 23 2005,19:48
Dec - 2005
Seasons Greetings to all the contributors of DSL!
Thanks so much for all your efforts.
Not only is it a great design, but puts new life into
older equipment, as well as the new.
On more than one occasion, the library computer
was surrounded by several children as one
navigated.  That's the true reward.
Thank you all so much!

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