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Quote (Guest @ Sep. 09 2004,19:03)
DurnSmallLinux runs like a cat with its tail on fire on my old PentiumII Compaq 5170.  It positively screams on DamnSmall Linux.  I am running DSL version 0.7.2.

I have it loaded on an old 400M hardrive that I had put away in the bottom of a filing cabinet years ago.  I dusted off the drive, socked it with DSL, and lo and behold, there is life below the Pentium IV threshold.

The only thing that I would really like to have as an addition is a decent calendering program like ical, for instance.  Well, make that two things: I'd like to have spell checking on my email program.

How 'bout it DSL developers?  Is that doable or desirable?


  red_clay

Perhaps as a .dsl extension...that would be cool!

Remember any program you would like to add to DSL can be made into a .dsl extension...

Brian
AwPhuch
Just found a new use for DSL - testing laptops!

I just bought a second-hand IBM Thinkpad 1200 with a dead hard drive (and it doesn't have a floppy drive, except as external USB) .    
Anyway, it's a 550MHz with 64MB  RAM....    a couple of 'rescue CD's' didn't really want to know, but DSL loaded and ran just fine, which proved that everything (except the HD) was working.    

Now I've got a 6GB hard drive for it, I've tried installing various Linuxes - Fedora Core 1 hung up in installation, so did Mandrake 9  (but then I've never managed to install Mandrake on anything, it must hate me :),  Debian Woody installed OK till we got to the 'configuring X' part of it which always gives trouble...   Vector 4.0 eventually installed after a little humming and hahing over whether it liked the hard drive...

.. the only distros that installed happily were Knoppix 3.3 (which is a bit tight for 64MB) and  DSL 0.5.    

Top marks to DSL!

cr

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