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Posted: Feb. 09 2006,07:52 |
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| Quote (AwPhuch @ Feb. 08 2006,19:27) | http://www.zenwalk.org/
I can guarantee zenwalk will run like crap on older hardware...
| Quote | These are the minimal hardware requirements to run Zenwalk in Xwindow mode, with correct performance (some lower configs work, but might be slow) :
Pentium III class processor
128 Mb RAM
2Gb HDD |
Pentium III started at 500Mhz didnt they...
The minimum specs are 4x as heavy as DSL
| Quote | There are 2 versions of Zenwalk :
Zenwalk (full version ~ 400MB iso download) is a complete system : out of the box, you will be able to browse, mail, chat, listen to music, program in C, Perl, Python, Ruby,.. watch videos in various formats, write documents, print, scan, burn CD and DVD, connect your camera and edit your photographs, without adding anything. Coders will like the full set of development libraries and interpreters.
Zenwalk Core (~ 230MB iso download) is a Zenwalk system without X applications. Zenwalk-core is intended to be used as a starting point to build a custom desktop system or a server system, and for users with limited space on their disk, or great perfectionists wanting to build their personal desktop system themselves. |
Is all fine and dandy..but older hardware would choke...plus the 2.6 kernel I think MUST boot from CD....kernel img wont fit on a floppy
Brian
AwPhuch |
Well it dont choke. It runs a lightweight desktop. Very smooth and very fast. I dont know how low end it will go but im running a p166 with 96 ram it runs great. That is until I try launching GIMP that makes my system puke! as far as web browsing, mail and messenger apps it runs pretty well. However I did catch a snag this morning. I booted my laptop up when I got up this morning. Got the kids ready for school and took them. whn I returned there was a screensaver running on the desktop with vector graphics. when I got out of the screensaver it made my system puke again. so I reboote and everything was good again. I turned off the screensaver. did a little test and left the laptop on all day. as the day went on the system got slower and slower. I launched thunderbird mail and it took at least 10 minutes to load. no clue why it bogs down like that. looks like memory leak or something. I launched thunderbird with no other programs running in the background. But I assure you at boot and for quite a while after it runs very fast and smooth.
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