Rapidweather
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Posted: May 03 2005,01:00 |
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The 32 MB of Ram is the problem, not enough.
I have gotten Grey Cat Linux to run on 4 MB of ram, with Netscape 3.04,
a web server, and an editor to update the page being served.
Very slow, however, on a 486 sx 33.
Damn Small is built on Knoppix, and this is a modern up-to-date operating system, needing some ram, at least 128 MB in the case of KDE, and some fairly fast processor speed. I have DSL 6.2 running on a 200 MMX processor, and it does OK.
I have tried DSL disks on several machines with very limited ram as a test, (about 32 MB) and they all won't get going, too little ram to work. I know it is hard to understand, as Windows 98 will run on 16 MB of RAM.
Once you do get a machine to boot the DSL OS, however, the Fluxbox
window manager is probably the best you can do as far as using what ram you have to the fullest.
In my Knoppix remaster, I split it down the middle, with Icewm as default, and Fluxbox for less powerful machines, and KDE for the modern machines.
I stick with a customized version of Fluxbox for my DSL remaster, however.
That is all I can do to assist those running older machines. One additional thing, DSL offers the "syslinux" version as a download, that will run on almost all machines, but with at least a mimimal amount of ram, 32 MB not being enough, even for that.
Hope this helps.
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Rapidweather Remaster of DSL:
http://www.angelfire.com/ms/telegram/getting_started.html
Rapidweather Remaster of Knoppix Linux:
http://www.geocities.com/rapidweather/getting_started.html
Screenshots:
http://www.rapidweather.com/linuxcdsales.html
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