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Posted: June 07 2006,14:18 QUOTE

I installed DSL into my Intel Pentium III 500MHz comp with 128MB ram and it runs so fast until it looks like a trick! It's so good, never have such fast operating system before, and it's so simple! 5 minutes of installation and the whole thing is deployed with Linux joy!! :cool:

However, just asking some questions here:

1.) Will this DSL support 64-bit extensions on AMD and Intel's EM64T? I bet it'll work even much faster.

2.) The Dial-Up for broadband is a little bit tedious - I couldn't make different profiles for Dial-Up, and the disconnect is in the command prompt area.

3.) I have a wireless adapter but is in a form of a USB ones - and DSL doesn't support this at all. Maybe can add the drivers for these?

4.) And how can I enable the firewall? Or I must install it by myself?

5.) Is there an emulator to make Windows program to work in Linux?

6.) And I couldn't change the refresh rate - my monitor's slightly flickering.

This is the best small operating system I have ever found. Now I want to install it in my Celeron D machine, it's so nice!! :D
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Posted: June 08 2006,10:29 QUOTE

1. Don't think so.

4. http://linuxgazette.net/103/odonovan.html

5. http://www.vmware.com/products/server/. Search the forum - I think people have used it. There may be other possibilities as well.

6. DSL uses the lightweight Xvesa X-server and unfortunately it isn't possible to set refresh rates. You have to install and configure the XFree myDSL package to change the rates.
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Posted: June 08 2006,18:37 QUOTE

1) Non authoritative answer: never.

5) Wine is another option.
Qemu 0.8.1 with full virtualization is yet another option:
http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/kqemu-doc.html#SEC7

BTW, if you have an amd 64 and compile your own qemu from sources, you can emulate DSL perfectly with nearly native CPU with the above option (-kernel-kqemu).


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THE QEMU FORUM: http://qemu.dad-answers.com/index.php

QEMU ON WINDOWS: http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/

How to use floppy, CD-ROM and hard disk - http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/HowToFloppyCdrom-en.html

How to use network - http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/HowToNetwork-en.html
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Posted: June 08 2006,22:28 QUOTE

P.S.  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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