pentium 100Mhz 8M memory and damnsmall-0.7.1Forum: Other Help Topics Topic: pentium 100Mhz 8M memory and damnsmall-0.7.1 started by: kime Posted by kime on June 23 2004,02:16
my computer is pentium 100Mhz and it has 8Mb memory and 420 Megabytes HDD.does damnsmall-0.7.1 linux work with it? Posted by cbagger01 on June 23 2004,05:38
8MB of RAM is too small for practical use in graphical X Windows mode.You might be able to run DSL in text console mode (kinda like "MSDOS Mode" in Windows 9x). Your best options are: Get more RAM. or Try Basic Linux. It is not a livecd and it is harder to set up but it is a better choice for low memory computer systems. < http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/baslinux/ > Good Luck. Posted by AwPhuch on June 23 2004,17:11
I have DSL 7.0 installed on a laptop with 8 meg ram 75mhz (90Mhz if turbo (ooooh)) 504meg hd and its deathly slow, in text mode it runs very quickly..im sure if you wanted to use it as a firewall applicance see < SmoothWall > then it might make that puppy scream (only prob is smoothwall doesnt have pcmcia support yet(but we are working on it))Brian AwPhuch Posted by kime on June 23 2004,17:54
well, i increased mem to 32M and now I\am surfing internet on damn small linux, wery good system, i\ll have to put soundcard in so i can listen music...thanks anyway...=)
Posted by AwPhuch on June 24 2004,16:50
RAM is the key with Linux....more ram you have the faster/more responsive your system will become....Brian AwPhuch |