Slackware On A Dinosaur Of A Computer

**Marel** · 10-16-2005

Hey, you have 384MB of RAM. It's quite enough. Don't worry. Processor is not that important.

**chopin1810** · 10-16-2005

Yeah it is, I mean think about it. You can have as much memory as you want but if the system can't move the data around fast enough then there's no difference.

**cheetahman** · 10-17-2005

Mine is 90Mhz and 24Mb of ram and it runs Slackware 10.2 but it uses fluxbox

**onlinebacon** · 10-17-2005

Wow ^^

I used tah run the slackware on a 120mhz, so u should be OK.

**Marel** · 10-17-2005

Originally Posted by chopin1810

Yeah it is, I mean think about it. You can have as much memory as you want but if the system can't move the data around fast enough then there's no difference.

It is always faster to work with phisical memory then virtual memory.

**borromini** · 10-17-2005

Originally Posted by cheetahman

Mine is 90Mhz and 24Mb of ram and it runs Slackware 10.2 but it uses fluxbox

Sorry but I think the RAM doesn't meet the min specs for a Slackware box with a WM... For X and stuff they recommend 64 MB. Without it would be doable, but fluent working... I dunno.

So... Screenshots please!

**cheetahman** · 10-17-2005

It also has no swap

**borromini** · 10-17-2005

Cheetahman, I'm really sorry man, but you must be talking plain ********... I remember your threads where every single one of your questions that was answered generated new ones, over and over, each one having the level of a 10-year old... You don't seem the guy to me who gets that done. No way. So unless you post a screenshot, I consider your posts in this topic plain gibberish.

If you can't pull off a basic partitioning job, there's no way you're gonna get Slack working on 24, complete with X and a WM... No freakin' way.

**cheetahman** · 11-03-2005

Originally Posted by borromini

Cheetahman, I'm really sorry man, but you must be talking plain ********... I remember your threads where every single one of your questions that was answered generated new ones, over and over, each one having the level of a 10-year old... You don't seem the guy to me who gets that done. No way. So unless you post a screenshot, I consider your posts in this topic plain gibberish.

If you can't pull off a basic partitioning job, there's no way you're gonna get Slack working on 24, complete with X and a WM... No freakin' way.

Slackware isn't as hard as it seems and I upgraded the kernel from 2.4 to 2.6
It has Fluxbox and XMMS but thats all its good at playing music I also gave it two cd drives.

**budman7** · 11-03-2005

Originally Posted by cheetahman

It also has no swap

I am really curious as to how you accomplished this.

I have a computer that I like to play with that has

96 MB ram (4 SIMMs)
224 Mhz Cyrix proc

And it uses swap heavily. I gave it a swap partition of 200 MB.

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