I stuffed slackware 3.4 on a 386/4MB ram/80MB hd once.
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Anonymous2005-08-23 22:16
I think pretty much all distros would work well on those specs.
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Anonymous2005-08-23 23:37
>>4
Confirmed. I have a P2/128mb and I've run OpenBSD, Debian, and Gnome.
Damn Small is for like 80s technology, not 1999.
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Anonymous2005-08-24 3:47
yeah I've run linux on things a lot older than that with no hitch. Your average 60mhz i386 machine should be able to handle almost any distro of linux, you're well into the green with that box.
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7600!u4gC.dTYAE2005-08-24 10:38
I've run Debian sarge (the latest version) on an old 486DX2-66 with only 32MB before. It was sloooooow, but it worked fine. I also have a P2-400 wuith 256MB that runs Debian very well, so a P3-500 should be just great.
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Anonymous2005-08-27 14:39 (sage)
I working on Slackware 10.1 at p3 450/192mb and its O-K!
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Anonymous2005-09-12 3:00
Is there any way how you should optimize the install? Cause I installed debian and stuff on a 600Mhz PC, took AGES to load ANYTHING.
Really, it was unbearable.
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Anonymous2005-09-12 5:04
Don't install Gnome or KDE, or any of their libs. Keep GTK and maybe Qt.
Whatever is left will run just fine on a 600MHz PC.
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Anonymous2005-09-12 5:06
>>10
I.e. the servers, compilers, shells and textutils, and ancient, inconsistent, and frequently useless X applications.
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Anonymous2005-09-12 5:49
>>9
Yeah get fluxbox or xfce4 or any of the other lightweight wms that use like no resources compared to kde and gnome (hueg lol)
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Anonymous2005-09-12 7:01
I ran linux for years without Gnome or KDE. In fact I still do (XFCE and Fluxbox for me too). Guess what? All the major GUI apps work just fine thank-you very much.
I have a desktop in linux that does everything I do in windows, short of gaming. Nobody needs a DE, and frankly I think a lot of people would be better off without them; they're bloated hogs.
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Anonymous2005-09-12 8:52
>>13
I'd like to mention a caveat to that: if you're used to DEs and then you get a WM you'll be a bit confused about where all your useful tools are. After awhile you realise you have to get them yourself, which is in fact a Good Thing because it results in your only having exactly what you want instead of a desktop full of dozens of useless turds.
XFCE is a good happy medium because it has a modular library of tools that you can download as required.
By the way can anyone recommend me a good, simple image browser? I'm using Kuickshow at the moment which isn't at all bad but it leaves a bunch of barf in my terminal when I launch it. Guess it misses KDE or something.
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Anonymous2005-09-12 9:10
All the image viewers in linux land suck to varying degrees. There's a hate thread all about it on 4-ch.
It depends what you're looking for. Since there isn't any decent viewer out there, you have to choose which features are most important to you, and pray that there's something out there that comes close.
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Anonymous2005-09-12 10:46
>>15
Right, so what are my options? I know of Kuickshow and the Gnome equivalent (whatever it's called) but that's about it.
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Anonymous2005-09-12 15:06
>>13
Short of FAR Manager, professional image editing, modeling, document authoring, etc. software, efficiently accelerated graphics subsystem......
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Anonymous2005-09-12 15:08
>>14 can anyone recommend me a good, simple image browser?
ACDSee 3.1 (free) for Windows. Perhaps you can get it working with Wine, I don't know, but it's worth a try, because it's the fastest image viewer, and it's reasonably simple yet reasonably powerful. Although I don't know if it'll be nearly that fast under Linux, even if reprogrammed from scratch.
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Anonymous2005-09-12 21:57
If you like using keyboard navigation, xzgv is what you'll be after. It needs major tweaking before it's usable though, so expect to wade through its massive man page.
GQview is rather popular, and provides a lot of functions. It has shit keyboard navigation though, and it doesn't support animated gifs despite using gdk_pixbuf (WTF?). It's like GIMP: does a lot, but horrid interface.
GTKsee is an effort to copy ACDSee 2.* on linux, but frankly it completely missed the mark. It looks a great deal like ACDSee, but the keyboard nav is bust, and it does less than GQview.
Then there's xv, but xv is a POS, and I have no idea why so many distributions still include it. Kill it! Kill it with fire!
Yet another is ImageMagick (yeah, it does come with its own viewer). It's quite basic, and gets the job done, but isn't much good at flipping though images.
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CCFreak2K2005-09-13 0:09
I run Slackware 10 on my AMD K6/II 400MHz, 128MB RAM just fine. I haven't exactly stress tested it as a server, though.
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Anonymous2005-09-13 4:18
>>19 It needs major tweaking before it's usable
How many times have I heard of this... What are Linux distros for? Always the same ancient, shitty configuration for pretty much anything from zsh to xzgv.
Then there's xv, but xv is a POS, and I have no idea why so many distributions still include it. Kill it! Kill it with fire!
Because of freedom; 30 useless image browsers must be better than 1.
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Thanks I'm installing all three of those, I'll see what I like and delete the other two. I think xv comes because it's "standard" i.e. something you expect to be there. If you're using an unfamiliar system and need to view an image you can at least be sure you can use xv. Just like vi is always going to be there even if you use emacs.
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Anonymous2005-09-13 8:53 (sage)
>>22
Excuse me for not liking stuff that "almost works".
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CCFreak2K2005-09-13 19:52
With a PentiumIII at 500MHz and with 128MB RAM, you could run most if not all x86 Linux distros that you can find.
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Ekce2005-09-13 20:57
>>24
yea, you shouldn't have any problems, in terms of speed it all does come down to the gui. I use afterstep on my 400MHz k6II w/384MB RAM it runs well, and it looks cool. But if you're going for a minimal or speedy gui you're going to want blackbox or fluxbox. I believe Damn Small Linux runs under fluxbox gui, but I don't remember...there are many more, look around, try different ones out, it's not too much of a bother, that is if you have broadband and can download the packages quickly.