I like it!

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Topic: I like it!
started by: I went to bed very late

Posted by I went to bed very late on Sep. 06 2004,13:06

I m a newbie with linux and installed a machine for word processing only (on an ibm166+ + 48MB RAM).
In comparison to my previous try installing debian with DSL I was able to have the disk partitioned, the files copied, the xserver running and all this after only one newbie working day.

Posted by seldomseen on Sep. 07 2004,14:44

So did I ... using DSL 0.7.2 in a dual-boot on my old Gateway Astro (64M RAM, about 399 mHz, and 4G HD.), so this is luxurious by comparison. Windows 98SE coughs and wheezes on this machine like an old Rambler with emphysema, but DSL runs like blue blazes. I'm a relative Linux newbie, with about 6 months background in RH9 and Fedora 1. DSL took maybe an hour to install, and it's great.

The Gateway, which was good for little more than a large expensive paperweight, has a new life. It's just the thing for my wife to learn on.

Posted by AwPhuch on Sep. 07 2004,16:56

Quote (seldomseen @ Sep. 07 2004,10:44)

Uh oh...look out....shes gonna want your new system shortly...

Welcome to the Revolution!!!

You would be amazed what "old" harware DSL will run on...I have revived and old 75Mhz (90 with TURBO-oooooh) and 16M ram and 504M HD...chops along just happy to be alive!!!!

Brian
AwPhuch

Posted by mantissa on Sep. 09 2004,00:09

Man, DSL is the bomb! Rocks on thre machines:
1. IBM aptiva 450mhz k6-2 with 192 megs of sdram, tho video is choppy with only 8meg apg - gonna have to get a PCI video card with a bunch since i;ve no agp slots
2. PC chips clone with a pentium ii 300 and 64 megs of ram. havn't tried video but... will soon
3. acer aspire 166 k6 with 96mb of those little ram sticks with the massive chips all over them, 2 asi slots and one pci

gonna try it on my amd 1700 plus soon... its loading libranet as we speak... I LOVE DSL

Posted by red_clay on Sep. 09 2004,23:03

DurnSmallLinux runs like a cat with its tail on fire on my old PentiumII Compaq 5170. It positively screams on DamnSmall Linux. I am running DSL version 0.7.2.

I have it loaded on an old 400M hardrive that I had put away in the bottom of a filing cabinet years ago. I dusted off the drive, socked it with DSL, and lo and behold, there is life below the Pentium IV threshold.

The only thing that I would really like to have as an addition is a decent calendering program like ical, for instance. Well, make that two things: I'd like to have spell checking on my email program.

How 'bout it DSL developers? Is that doable or desirable?

red_clay

Posted by AwPhuch on Sep. 10 2004,15:17

Quote (Guest @ Sep. 09 2004,19:03)

Perhaps as a .dsl extension...that would be cool!

Remember any program you would like to add to DSL can be made into a .dsl extension...

Brian
AwPhuch

Posted by cr on Sep. 11 2004,23:11

Just found a new use for DSL - testing laptops!

I just bought a second-hand IBM Thinkpad 1200 with a dead hard drive (and it doesn't have a floppy drive, except as external USB) .
Anyway, it's a 550MHz with 64MB RAM.... a couple of 'rescue CD's' didn't really want to know, but DSL loaded and ran just fine, which proved that everything (except the HD) was working.

Now I've got a 6GB hard drive for it, I've tried installing various Linuxes - Fedora Core 1 hung up in installation, so did Mandrake 9 (but then I've never managed to install Mandrake on anything, it must hate me

, Debian Woody installed OK till we got to the 'configuring X' part of it which always gives trouble... Vector 4.0 eventually installed after a little humming and hahing over whether it liked the hard drive...

.. the only distros that installed happily were Knoppix 3.3 (which is a bit tight for 64MB) and DSL 0.5.

Top marks to DSL!

cr