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noclobber

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Posted: April 15 2005,02:30

Are you sure you want to know?

Back in January I had a remastered DSL 0.7.3"SX"

running on a 486SX 33MHz PC w/24MB RAM. It ran, but was way too slow to be useable.

DSL 0.8.2 does run quite nicely on my 133MHz P1 w/128MB RAM. In fact, it's quite snappy compared to Windows 2000.

When DSL 1.x stabilizes, I want to try a frugal install on a 486DX 75MHz laptop w/32MB RAM & 800MB HD.

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Posted: April 15 2005,15:07

Pentium 200 MMX with 32 MB RAM. It boots and runs Fluxbox reasonably fast.

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Posted: April 15 2005,15:34

With my organization I install DSL on many old machines every week. My remastered version runs very well on a PI with 32mb ram. Right now, at home I have it on a P133 40mb ram Toshiba 430CDT laptop. It has been up for weeks with xchat running and the occasional Dillo, and yes, Firefox. FF is very slow to start but once it's up, surfing is fine with my DSL connection. It will go down this evening though for a 1.0.1 upgrade.

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Posted: April 15 2005,15:37

DSL 0.9.3 runs on a computer in my basement, runs X fine:
75 mhz, 24 MB ram, 450 MB hd

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cbagger01

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Posted: April 15 2005,21:36

FYI,

For a really old computer like these, please try the Opera uci extension.

The Opera web browser is full-featured and runs much faster on these computers than Firefox does and with a UCI extension it uses very little RAM.

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