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Posted: Dec. 15 2005,23:42 QUOTE

I have a P 166 with 32 Mb RAM and I'm running DSL live CD.   I know the system is very weak/slow but I can't even open FireFox to go online  :(  .  

Am I missing something here?   All I can do so far is play solitaire  :D
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Posted: Dec. 16 2005,02:30 QUOTE

Firefox takes anywhere from 12-14Meg once open...

On a system with less than 64Megs I would recommend against trying to use Firefox..use dillo

P.S. Please remember...the fastest CDROM in the world is probably 100X slower than the slowest HD

Brian
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Posted: Dec. 16 2005,03:39 QUOTE

Thanks Brian.   I should have mentioned I did do the frugal install and it was still slower than molasses in the middle of January  :D  .   I'll just chalk it up to low resources.   No problem, I still like DSL.

I'll try dilo next.   And yes, I realize that a CDROM is much slower than a H/D.

Cheers, Dave :)
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Posted: Dec. 16 2005,05:06 QUOTE

On a 166mhz with 32mb ram, you might want to make some changes to free up resources as much as you can.  
Use a very basic theme like minimal if you use fluxbox, or try jwm instead.
Turn off icons, dockapps, and torsmo.
Consider some low-resource alternatives to applications launched from desktop icons: midnight commander instead of emelfm, mpg321 and ogg123 instead of xmms, vim or nano instead of beaver, dillo instead of firefox.
Lower your screen resolution and color depth.
Create a swap partition if you haven't already done it.


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Posted: Dec. 16 2005,12:24 QUOTE

Opera will run much better than firefox on 32 M of RAM.  It has more functionality than dillo.  Dillo is OK, but somewhat limited.
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