Tommy Likey
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| tuxtom Mar 27, 2006 4:02 PM EDT |
I have DSL running a PI-233(32 megs of ram) IBM Thinkpad. I have a usable and responsive desktop on this hardware. The OEM Windows 95 could barely boot...I don't know how they sold that stuff for the prices they did in those days. I tried installing a couple distros and none took to this old hardware...let me clarify: didn't take well to running X. I really miss X before the desktop environments came along. There were (and still are) some beautifully crafted WM's out there. DSL is minmalistic, but comprehensive and very well thought out. I digg DSL. |
| sharkscott Mar 27, 2006 5:20 PM EDT |
I run it on a P-III 450 with 512mg RAM and it quite literally runs circles around the AMD 1600 512-RAM main computer I am typing from. I have seriously considered using it as my main Linux Distro, I think I need to consider faster. :-) |
| tuxtom Mar 27, 2006 5:28 PM EDT |
Yeah, I have no need for bloat. It feels close to the bone, as far as GNU/Linux goes. Found all my hardware with no prob. Hardware that would have been practically useless w/o DSL or a lot of personal effort.. |
| jdixon Mar 27, 2006 7:34 PM EDT |
> I digg DSL. Yep. Works great here on a Celeron 300 system with 64 MB of memory. It's the cat's meow for older systems. |
| tuxtom Mar 28, 2006 4:12 AM EDT |
The Cat's Meow...probably the most famous sleeping bag of all-time. |
| tuxtom Mar 28, 2006 6:07 AM EDT |
I would like to add that I am impressed by the caliber of responses..as far as my much-endeared lxer user-base goes. I think DSL speaks for itself. It has my endorsement. DSL is a cool deb-based distro, and I'm glad people that I respect use it on their old "junk", which isn't really junk after all. I look forward to its continued development. DSL doesn't need PR, it works. |
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