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Topic: pentium 100Mhz 8M memory and damnsmall-0.7.1, does it work

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kime

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Posted: June 23 2004,02:16

my computer is pentium 100Mhz and it has 8Mb memory and 420 Megabytes HDD.
does damnsmall-0.7.1 linux work with it?

cbagger01

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Posted: June 23 2004,05:38

8MB of RAM is too small for practical use in graphical X Windows mode.

You might be able to run DSL in text console mode (kinda like "MSDOS Mode" in Windows 9x).

Your best options are:

Get more RAM.

or

Try Basic Linux. It is not a livecd and it is harder to set up but it is a better choice for low memory computer systems.

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/baslinux/

Good Luck.

AwPhuch

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Posted: June 23 2004,17:11

I have DSL 7.0 installed on a laptop with 8 meg ram 75mhz (90Mhz if turbo (ooooh)) 504meg hd and its deathly slow, in text mode it runs very quickly..im sure if you wanted to use it as a firewall applicance see SmoothWall then it might make that puppy scream (only prob is smoothwall doesnt have pcmcia support yet(but we are working on it))

Brian
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kime

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Posted: June 23 2004,17:54

well, i increased mem to 32M and now I\am surfing internet on damn small linux, wery good system, i\ll have to put soundcard in so i can listen music...thanks anyway...=)

AwPhuch

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Posted: June 24 2004,16:50

RAM is the key with Linux....more ram you have the faster/more responsive your system will become....

Brian
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http://www.frappr.com/dsl <-- Where do you use DSL?
http://www.smoothwall.org <-- Ultimate firewall for the world!
http://boinc.mundayweb.com/one/stats.php/userID:6107 <--My BOINC stats!
./S99LinuxRevolution start

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