what is the slowest computer you have running dsl?
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Topic: what is the slowest computer you have running dsl?
started by: sega01
Posted by sega01 on April 14 2005,08:34
what is the slowest computer you have running dsl?i got my toshiba 205 cds laptop running on dsl... only a 810
meg harddrive, 24 megs of ram, and a 100 mhz pentium. i
can accually run flux on it fairly well...
Posted by Onyarian on April 14 2005,10:09
hallo,I run DSL, with HD instalation, on a desktop computer: 486, 100Mhz, 24 Mb ram and 1'5 Gb HDD, better than the W95 that I have before in it.
Great!!!!
Thanks DSL's
Posted by cbagger01 on April 14 2005,16:28
Pentium 1 , 60Mhz, 40MB RAM, 4GB HDD
Posted by davide on April 14 2005,16:31
laptop Pentium 1, 100 mhz, 40MB Ram, 2GB HDD. running (almost) well
Posted by benson on April 14 2005,22:08
Pentium 1 100MHz 32MB RAM 500MB HD
Posted by noclobber on April 15 2005,02:30
Are you sure you want to know?Back in January I had a remastered DSL 0.7.3"SX"
running on a 486SX 33MHz PC w/24MB RAM. It ran, but was way too slow to be useable.DSL 0.8.2 does run quite nicely on my 133MHz P1 w/128MB RAM. In fact, it's quite snappy compared to Windows 2000.
When DSL 1.x stabilizes, I want to try a frugal install on a 486DX 75MHz laptop w/32MB RAM & 800MB HD.
Posted by 2pac_Shaker on April 15 2005,15:07
Pentium 200 MMX with 32 MB RAM. It boots and runs Fluxbox reasonably fast.
Posted by clivesay on April 15 2005,15:34
With my organization I install DSL on many old machines every week. My remastered version runs very well on a PI with 32mb ram. Right now, at home I have it on a P133 40mb ram Toshiba 430CDT laptop. It has been up for weeks with xchat running and the occasional Dillo, and yes, Firefox. FF is very slow to start but once it's up, surfing is fine with my DSL connection. It will go down this evening though for a 1.0.1 upgrade. Chris
Posted by camzmac on April 15 2005,15:37
DSL 0.9.3 runs on a computer in my basement, runs X fine:75 mhz, 24 MB ram, 450 MB hd
Posted by cbagger01 on April 15 2005,21:36
FYI,For a really old computer like these, please try the Opera uci extension.
The Opera web browser is full-featured and runs much faster on these computers than Firefox does and with a UCI extension it uses very little RAM.
Posted by Rapidweather on April 15 2005,22:27
200 MMX, 128 MB RAM, 2 GB HDD, 2 MB S3 Trio video card. I have a 50x cdrom drive, and usually do "toram" since the drive is not too reliable, and with 128 MB ram, it works ok to put DSL into RAM.
The hard drive has a generous swap for DSL to use, and I use a hardware modem with Wvdial. Very pleasant to work with.
Posted by Coma on April 16 2005,02:41
i guess the slowest puter i have dsl on is a 486 100mhz 16 meg ramuse glinks and dillo to surf with and ted for quotes and invoices
also use dsl on a laptop pentium 150mhz 32 meg ram NO HD
custom 0.7.1 cd with all i can put on the cd and run from cd
brings life back to the stuff in the closet
and then theres my toram puter gotta love dsl
Coma
Posted by cj1 on April 17 2005,22:19
it flies on my hp omnibook2100.its a 233 with 4gb hdd and 64 ram. kicks win2k's ass
firefox aint too quick to boot but works well once its up
Posted by Null on April 18 2005,04:58
25mhz 486 laptop with 16meg ram and a 110 meg hard drive. loaded witha stack of floppys, it cant handle X but it runs links over its onboard modem.
Posted by corster on April 25 2005,05:02
NEC Versa V/75 laptop (486 dx4 75 Mhz)20 Mb of RAM
540 Mb hard drive (hard drive install 50% space 50% swap)
runs surprsingly nicely
-cor-
Posted by nadanij on May 01 2005,10:30
i have DSL 1.0.1 now on a P166 Laptop with 40 Megs Ram and 700MB hdd - runs nicely fast and boots much much much quicker than windoze 2k.n.
Posted by ico2 on May 02 2005,14:14
running an hdinstall very successfully on a p133 with 32mb ram
Posted by jah_lah on May 09 2005,13:04
Bingo.Acer laptop Acernote, 486DX4 75MHz, 16MBRAM, 512MBHDD,
partitioned - Win95/DSL/Swap
Posted by davide on May 09 2005,13:19
wow! jah_lah that's impressing!
Posted by schwizz on June 02 2005,02:06
i'm posting this using my Packard Bell Legend 205CD.- 66MHz 486
- 8 MB Ram
- 500 MB Hard Disk (installed to this hard drive using another machine then moving the hard drive since I can't boot w/CD) -- so I guess i cheated.
I've found that I can get better performance by lowering the color depth of the display, but then I can't use Firefox or Dillo. I'm forced to use 16 bit color (4 is the lowest) which slows me down a bit. But hey, it works. Maybe an ISA video card will help me - i'm using the motherboard right now.
schwizz
Posted by perrociego on June 03 2005,04:48
Hi guysAMD K5 75 MHz, 32 MB RAM, CD ROM, NO hard disk.
The f**** BIOS doesn't allow to boot from the CD, so I boot from a floppy.
Dillo is working nice, Firefox doesn't work at all.
Perrociego (from a rainy Buenos Aires)
Posted by nuttyman on June 06 2005,17:56
Pentium 1 Mobile @ 133Mhz, 80 MB RAM, 2.4 GB HDD.It's a Compaq LTE 5300 Laptop, dsl runs like a god on it, takes som time to start up though (takes 3 times longer time than with Slackware, but dsl is smaller so I use that instead).
Posted by pyrael on June 06 2005,22:05
Compaq Armada 7730MT Pentium 166 MMX, 32 MB Ram, 2 GB hdd-(128MB Swap, Rest for OS)HD install.Rus great, boots DSL about as fast as my 2.8 GHz 1 GB Ram Desktop boots Fedora core 3. Use dillo (cause I like it), firefox loads in about 30-60 sec. Xmms plays audio.......but I can't hear it! (havn't figured out what's wrong yet, alsa says no audio card). Linksys 10/100 PCMCIA card on Road runner. Pages load pretty quick. Vesa graphics 800x600 32bpp mode (probably be faster on a lower setting but I'm willing to sacrifice.
I am also attempting a hdinstall on a couple of old packard bells P200MMX 32MB 1.7 GB hdd, P 233 MMX 32 MB 1.7 hdd. And my favorite one: A Compaq 486DX? with a cyrix Socket 3 100 MHz, 32 MB ram and 1.7 GB hdd. The packards bells are onboard video with original multi ISA (snd\modem) the compaq is a SB16ISA, S3 ISA and has NO PCI slots!! :-P
Hey if anyone wants them , I have a coupl pentium 75 MHz Processors to play with....
Posted by tedlegrand on June 07 2005,13:34
Pentium 100MHz40MB RAM
800x600 24bit
HD install
Runs very decent with dillo and AMSN
I can also get firefox to work after waiting 30sec to load it up