DSL IS GREAT!!!!

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: DSL IS GREAT!!!!
started by: NewDude

Posted by NewDude on Feb. 19 2006,08:04

I have good things to say about DSL!!!!

I have my old compaq deskpro 2000 - P166mhz doing flips, tricks, and kicking butt. DSL has brought new life to this old system. I have been pushing this system and pushing, just to see how much I can get out of it. Since I have installed DSL on the HD on the P166mhz compaq, I have been on it way more than my P4.

I am so tired of Windows and the bore with it. When I found DSL I was amazed. I have been listening to classical music on XMMS (Default station with it) and surfing the web, playing Doom, and messing with the command line all at once. I am amazed. And the funnist part is I have a 250mb swap space, but it hardly gets used. The memory is at the most around 25 to 50mb(Out of 96mb)... it runs fast on this system.

This system is a P166mhz, 96mb, 2.5gb HD, 2mb video, and it has a new life. DSL is running so light weight and fast on this system, I forget I am on a P166. I am considering putting this system in my son's room so he can write his book reports and use it for school, but I am having so much fun with it. I don't want to give it up that easy. It runs great on this system.

I want to thank the developers John and Robert for this great and awesome product.

Especially John.

My next goal is get it going on my PII450mhz garage CPU. I already tested it off the LIVE CD, and it worked great. I plan to make it my email and web server. To replace my Windows 2k system(That is currently my email and web server)... I plan on running DSL totally out of memory. The PII 450mhz has 192mb. It should fly... I also bought the book written by Mike Weber titled "DSL - Linux Operating System in Less than 50 MB". The book is basic, but it has help since I don't have a ton of experience in Linux. I suggest getting the book. It explains a lot. Plus it comes with DSL 2.1. Although I am running 2.2b, it still helped.

THanks again for all the work you guys have done creating a truely great little OS.

Daniel Strong

Thanks again.

Posted by AwPhuch on Feb. 20 2006,19:17

Great review man!

I'm always amazed at the replies that people post here once they get a taste of freedom from Bill and his overblown and bloated monstrosity!

I have a 133Mhz Pentium Laptop with 32Meg of RAM and at the Linux workgroup at the Houston Area Leage of PC users I was whipping between the 4 virtual desktops and doing stuff thier poor old machines would grind away on!

There is only one thing left to be said bud!

Welcome to the Revolution!!!

Brian
AwPhuch

Posted by NewDude on Feb. 20 2006,23:58

AwPhuch, I have seen the light, and the light is DSL. It is good to.

I was just talking to one of my friends right before I read your reply to mine. He was just telling me he spent over $1000 on a new machine and is excited about M$ Long Horn or Vista... whatever M$ is calling these days and how his machine is going to run it great because of how fast it is.

I laughed at him. THen I asked him, "So what are you doing to do with your old PIII 800mhz"? He asked me if I wanted for $25 dollars.

Of course I said yes. I told him, "People like you save people like me a lot of money." I went on and told him about DSL running on the P166mhz and how I am now configuring my PII 450mhz to run DSL and attempting to get it to run on my PIII 667mhz (Had problems, not DSL fault, hardware problems). And he is clueless. Of course he is one of these types of guys that think he has to have the latest thing out and of course the latest M$ OS, which he only uses maybe an 1/8 of the software that comes with the machine.

DSL has everything I need (Almost) stock. I do need to get that C/C++ compiler, and I plan on trying to get RAPIDQ Basic to run on it to. But stock it has just about all you need, if that isn't enough you can download the packages pretested. I have already downloaded Samba, VNC server, and DOOM of course. Everything runs great and I am having fun.

I told my wife last night that we are going down to 1 windoze machine and that will be for the kids and their learning games, other than that, I can run Quicken 2001 through Wine and I have gotten my wife weened off MS Office about a year ago because I started running OpenOffice full time, my wife doesn't care one way for the other, she just wants to surf the net and use Quicken. If wine won't run well on DSL, I do have a Fedora machine that it can run on. But again, Fedora is a little bloated to but it is much better then Windoze... I have became anti-Microsoft over the last 2 years really bad.

I hope others read this and support DSL. Don't throw those old machines away, you can still get a lot of use out of them.

Posted by John on Feb. 21 2006,00:30

Thanks NewDude, but for the record, Robert deserves just as much credit for DSL as I do. He is responsible for many of the things that make DSL so clever.

Posted by clivesay on Feb. 21 2006,00:39

NewDude,

Look in the mydsl repository. Myself and others have included many educational games. My kids love the linux games I have on their PC.

Posted by NewDude on Feb. 21 2006,06:00

You're welcome John. I am happy that there are people out there like you who care about all of us.

Thanks again.

Clivesay, I will check it out. I didn't know... Are you saying I can say goodbye to Windows in my home? I would like to say goodbye to it at work to, but it seems my employer likes making us run XP as our desktop, eventhough I spend most of my time using SSH to talk to Soliaris machines running our Oracle databases on. I showed DSL to a couple of the guys I work with and they ended up booting straight off the Live CD and using SSH to talk to the Soliaris boxes. But our company still forces us to use stupid Outlook because they have everything running on M$ Exchange servers. They have bought into Microsoft products to much and get mad when we think out of the M$ box for solutions, even when it is going to save them money. Weird huh???

Thanks for the info.