Tranka
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Posted: Nov. 09 2003,02:39 |
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On Thursday, tired of dealing with a bloated Red Hat 9 distro on my Winbook laptop (P233MHz w/128MB ram, 2GB hdd), I wiped the disk clean and installed DSL 0.4.10. Unlike the marathon install I had to endure with R9, DSL came into my machine's hard drive, took names and kicked derrier with flawless execution. Total time: ~15 min. (from CD boot to HDD boot).
I was so impressed with the lean meanness of DSL that the next day I decided to install it on my old AST 486 mobo w/32MB ram, 4x CDROM and 425MB hdd (this machine has the "uncanny" Pentium Overdrive upgrade running at a blazing 83MHz). With the aid of a bootable floppy, I was able to boot DSL and install it into the hdd with no complaints. The machine boots from hdd and deals with the Enhanced desktop very well. I am yet to do speed and performance tests, but so far it looks good. Time: ~30 min. (from floppy boot to HDD boot)
Thanks, John for a solid, no non-sense, let's get on with it distro. DSL has everything I will ever really need from a Linux distro while at home or on the road. If I ever feel the need to develop code or do desktop publishing, then I'll go to my office at work. 'Cause in the end, it's all about scope.
-Pepin
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