DSL a good distro choice for an old laptop?Forum: Laptops Topic: DSL a good distro choice for an old laptop? started by: kananga Posted by kananga on Nov. 16 2005,02:59
I'm looking for a nice lightweight distro to install on a couple of old laptops I have. Is DSL a good choice for this? One of these machines is a 133MHz Pentium with maybe 96MB of RAM. How will I fare with DSL on this? Is there a better "lightweight" distribution for this purpose? Any feedback is appreciated. Thanks!
Posted by cbagger01 on Nov. 16 2005,03:22
DSL is ideal for such a system.96MB of RAM is more than enough for DSL. Posted by kananga on Nov. 16 2005,03:44
Cool. Thanks for the feedback.
Posted by AwPhuch on Nov. 17 2005,23:49
I have a 133Mhz laptop with 32Meg RAM..it gets boggy at times...however with 96Meg it should smoke!!!I would recommend a frugal HD install...you will be pleasantly pleased Brian AwPhuch Posted by Lunar_Lamp on Nov. 18 2005,12:07
I have a 233MHz laptop with 48MB ram. DSL was the best distro I could find for it, and I tried a few of the others. You may like to try them out though - puppy and libranet looked like they might be good - but I felt that DSL wiped the floor with them for my laptop.
Posted by peabody on Nov. 29 2005,23:27
I have an older dell E800 (850Mhz 128MB Ram) that I was considering RAM upgrading to deploy with windows... when I came across an article on DSL in slashdot. The main focus of this laptop will actually be to create a network SMB share for my xbox media center. Should I anticipate any problems deploying DSL for this purpose?
Posted by KC on Nov. 30 2005,04:06
I've been packing PI 233 MMX with 96 GB and it does everything I want to. I could use it as a portable digial photo album. It plays MP3 @ 50% CPU. It even plays mpg files (small 320x200) @ 100% CPU. Down side is that it will not do DVD for long car trips. It is really nice to have extra RAM. For Lap Remember FB???x??? command and I do a tohd=/dev/had1 to a swap drive on windows c: drive. Have Fun KC Posted by cbagger01 on Nov. 30 2005,04:43
DSL should work fine on that machine.You will need to download, install and configure the samba.dsl extension from the myDSL repository in order to "share" your hard drive. The install and setup process is not "point and click simple", but if you don't mind playing around under the hood and searching the forums for help when needed you should be fine. Posted by AwPhuch on Nov. 30 2005,17:32
DSL should work fine! However I would recommend doing a frugal HD install..this way your /home /opt dir will be persistant (actually written (uncompressed) to the HD and the OS will only take 50Megs (compressed and unchanged) as opposed to ~200 Megs on a "true hd" install Brian AwPhuch Posted by Joe Shmo on Dec. 02 2005,11:33
Well, on my Toshiba Tecra 500CDT, Pentium 120, 64 MB nearly all works fine, beside Firefox: it's very very very slow - Dillo instead works fine and fast, but some pages of the www looks really strange.
Posted by cbagger01 on Dec. 03 2005,04:56
Get Opera from the myDSL repository.It is MUCH faster than Firefox on old computers and it is a full featured web browser so it displays most pages correctly unlike Dillo. Posted by Joe Shmo on Dec. 04 2005,09:11
I will give it try ...
Posted by gfellmayer on Dec. 04 2005,21:33
I have an old Everex 150 MHz 48 MB notebook but DSL does not load on it... I am still running MS Millenium on it and have tried to boot from the CD. The CD does boot on my other, newr notebook... Any suggestion on how to proceed. I would like to make the Everex my Linux Inet machine.. nothig elseThanks from Maple |