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linux_gal

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Posted: April 16 2005,23:42

You know, Linux (almost) never to be restarted
when you load up some new software. BUT! Sometimes there are scripts or deamons not started
or executed... So I do restart my system, not only to
insure whatever might have been copied into my init directories actually started, but to discover if any
startup conditions exist that I didn't know about before I installed the package.

borgward

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Posted: May 09 2005,00:58

Hi

There is a problem you should know about.

After using DSL on a Win 98Se machine, Windows has to reinstall serial devices.

This is not cool. It does not matter if it is a windows problem or not, as it makes Linux look bad.

Imagine you are Windows user, a friend comes over uses DSL from the CD, and after he is done, and you boot up windows, your machine does not work the way it did before. What would impression of Linux be?

I mean this as constructive advice. I really want Linux to prevail.

borgward

jah_lah

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Posted: May 09 2005,14:52

Well, this is the first distro i succeded to instal in an old laptop 486 with 16MBRAM-512MBHD. Being a linux newbie, it was sort of tricky, but i ended up with an hd install dual-boot Win95-DSL. My aim was to determine if there is a better alternative than win95 for such atticware. Due to RAM limitations, it's impraticable to run DSL from hd compressed image, at least with graphics. Things improved with a swap partition added, but at 640x480 windows are not scaled down, so navigation is awkward. I have yet to try Xremote but for now, to my very disapointment, Win95 seems to be unbeatable.
I never thought it will come the day to tip my hat to Win95, which i learned to hate thoroughly, but no other OS seems to do so much with so little hardware. :angry:

Delboy

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Posted: May 09 2005,16:01

borgward, having been booting these things up for a year and a half I can say that, in my experience, DSL live never alters Win98SE settings. A few more details of what exactly is being changed would be useful. You are right in saying that this is a problem IF it is really is a DSL issue.

noclobber

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Posted: May 09 2005,19:37

jah_lah,

Not long ago, I managed to install a no-math-coprocessor version of DSL 0.7.3 on a 486SX 33MHz desktop w/24MB RAM and 210MB HD on which I was originally running a rather sluggish Windows 95 OSR2. It ran, but was way too slow to be useable.

You might want to try some other small Linux GUI distros. I tried Grey Cat, but my non-VESA-compliant video caused X to not run.

I ended up installing (don't laugh) Windows NT 3.51 Workstation with NewShell 2. It was half the size, twice as fast, more secure (in NTFS), *much* more stable than Win95, and had the Win95 look & feel. With a little digging I was able to locate some decent Internet apps (web browser, email client, etc) for it as well.

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