Re: swap space on DSL ?


Dances With Crows wrote:
On 6 Nov 2006 09:43:21 -0800, surf staggered into the Black Sun and
said:
I installed Damn Small Linux to an old PC with 32M RAM

Hope you don't need to do much. 32M isn't enough to run anything but
the lightest of modern apps, and everything will be *slow*. Just
starting Netscape 4.7 on a machine with 32M took ~45 seconds back in
2000. Things have not improved much if you need a GUI or "normal"
end-user apps.


Thanks,

It looks like the swap space is now working.

I'm just screwing around with this old machine, learning about linux.

I have another machine, it has 64 meg of ram, and 3 gig hard drive. The
install on that machine seems to run faster. I am thinking of giving it
to a friend of mine so she can surf the web over a dial up modem.

I got a couple other machines where I installed vector linux and
knoppix.

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