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Posted: April 02 2005,05:04 QUOTE
I have tried loads of other distros which all hang on kernel panics of all sorts, but somehow, dsl boots and runs fine on my machine.  I was just wondering exactly enables this distro to run on such low ram without a swap.
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Posted: April 02 2005,05:22 QUOTE
smaller applications, fewer apps loaded into ram, smaller kernel....probably other factors i don't know about

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Posted: April 02 2005,05:40 QUOTE
Would these kernel panics i've been having with all other distros be due to low ram?
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Posted: April 02 2005,06:33 QUOTE
Thats possible.
Or the other distros might have a bunch of junk in the kernel/initrd somewhere...

DSL uses a minimal kernel, and loads everything else as a module. The other distros might have a cludgy kernel, and it has stuff that shouldn't be in there...

Hope DSL works out well for you =) enjoy.

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Posted: April 02 2005,12:18 QUOTE
Yea, all those other distros would kernel panic on some initrd issue complaining about a compressed image at block 0.  Well thanks for the input.  poop on a stick.
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