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Posted: Dec. 21 2005,15:59 QUOTE
Hi All,

I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who has put in time and effort to produce such a fantastic Operating System.

DSL has saved me from throwing away perfectly good hardware that is just not up to running a Linux desktop e.g. SUSE and such like.

DSL has given me hours of fun and will continue to do so. I tried other small Linux distros but DSL is the 'lightest' and fastest on my hardware -- isn't Dillo great!?!

My system is:

AMD K6-2 500Mhz
128Mb RAM (64 + 32 + 32)
1Gb Hard Drive (using frugal install leaves around 1300Mb free!)
2Mb Matrox Graphics Card
Ancient CDROM drive (2x or 4x I think)
10/100Mbps LAN card (NE2000)
USB 1.1 port

many thanks once again & may everyone have a happy Christmas and a fantastic New Year!

Peter.
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Posted: Dec. 21 2005,17:54 QUOTE
Wow!  That hardware is a ferrari for DSL man!

Welcome to the Revolution!!!

Brian
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http://www.frappr.com/dsl <-- Where do you use DSL?
http://www.smoothwall.org <-- Ultimate firewall for the world!
http://boinc.mundayweb.com/one/stats.php/userID:6107 <--My BOINC stats!
./S99LinuxRevolution start
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Posted: Dec. 22 2005,00:33 QUOTE
I have a Compaq laptop with similar specs:

500 MHz AMD K6-2
64MB RAM
6GB hard drive
24x CD-ROM drive
Lucent Winmodem (works with DSL 2.0 or later)
4MB shared Trident CyberBlade graphics
PCMCIA 3Com Megahertz 10/100 network card (original owner of the laptop gave me it)
USB 1.1 port

I have yet to get a new PCMCIA wireless card, 128MB RAM, and an installation of the latest DSL.

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"...Use blankets or pillows to cover your body and always stay away from Windows." -National Weather Service tornado warning
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Posted: Dec. 22 2005,06:16 QUOTE
Quote (MethodOne @ Dec. 21 2005,19:33)
I have a Compaq laptop with similar specs:

500 MHz AMD K6-2
64MB RAM
6GB hard drive
24x CD-ROM drive
Lucent Winmodem (works with DSL 2.0 or later)
4MB shared Trident CyberBlade graphics
PCMCIA 3Com Megahertz 10/100 network card (original owner of the laptop gave me it)
USB 1.1 port

I have yet to get a new PCMCIA wireless card, 128MB RAM, and an installation of the latest DSL.

DSL will fly on that rig!

Brian
AwPhuch

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http://www.frappr.com/dsl <-- Where do you use DSL?
http://www.smoothwall.org <-- Ultimate firewall for the world!
http://boinc.mundayweb.com/one/stats.php/userID:6107 <--My BOINC stats!
./S99LinuxRevolution start
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Posted: Dec. 22 2005,16:01 QUOTE
It does!  I use it for quick surfing and listening to the streams on SHOUTcast.

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