dslfool
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Posted: Oct. 03 2006,15:48 |
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(In honor of AwPhuch:) Welcome to the revolution!
It's very satisfying getting usable speed and functionality out of an older computer. I recently realized that I don't have any computers in the house less than, I think, about 6 years old, and most of these would be considered discardable by many:
- circa 2000 Mac PowerBook G3 400MHz (Mac OSX 10.3.9)
- Toshiba Portege 600MHz PIII notebook (DSL 3.0.1 & Win XP Pro)
- Dell Dimension GX1 450MHz PIII desktop (DSL 3.0.1)
- Dell Dimension L550r desktop, purchased for $25 with 512MB of RAM and later upgraded from 550MHz to 1GHz PIII (SLAX 5.1.7 booted to RAM from CD, no OS on the HD)
- microPC (model ?) flexATX-based desktop, upgraded from 550MHz to 800MHz PIII (Ubuntu 6.06)
All of these run acceptably fast for me and give me access to a huge array of Linux, Mac and Windows applications (and it's a heck of a lot of fun tinkering with the hardware and with the different OSs). SLAX in RAM is nice, but DSL is nicer no matter how it's booted.
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Toshiba Portege 7200CTe notebook, 600MHz PIII, 8GB CF as HD, 320MB RAM
DSL 4.2.5 (frugal toram)
...and the picture is of Fuad Ramses from the film "Blood Feast".
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It JUST WORKED right off the bat !!! Once inside it was very easy to navigate , I had not read any docs so that I would have a real idea of how easy it was to figure things out on my own. The layout seemed logical and I found everything I wanted. 
