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I have revived an old 133Mhz P75, 49 Mb memory computer, added a Wifi card and use Opera to surf the net at something like reasonable speed.

A problem I have is that I can't add any other myDSL programs. I would like to add Abiword, but, when I download it with my DSL, the operating system looses the desktop, doesn't shutdown normally and never shows Abiword.

Is the problem that I don't have enough memory? Is there anything I can do? Will the new version 3.0 help?

This is my first use of Linux and I pleased how fast and stable it is compared to the Windows 95 that was on the laptop.

Thanks,

Did you add a swap to act as extra memory?

I have a 200 Mb swap partition that I made active and seems to working but is almost empty, only a few Mb is in there, 1%, even when running Opera.

One thing that puzzles me is that the /home shows 198M/201M and / shows 2.4/3.0 on the desktop after a fresh boot but emelfin indicates /ramdisk/home contains only 15Mb.

This is my first salvo into Linux so pardon me if I'm pretty ignorant about whats happening.

How are you running(hdinstall,frugal,livecd,toram)?

Don't worry about the numbers, it's saying you have 198m free from ...

frugal

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