Slackware On A Dinosaur Of A Computer

**chopin1810** · 10-15-2005

I've been thinking of trying out the latest Slackware. I just haven't done it yet. Mainly from laziness. Also from not being totally sure that it will actually operate fast on my system (see signature for specs). I'm on dialup so it's a project for me every time I download a distro.
So any Slackware fanatics who have run Slackware on an older machine (similar to mine) with one of the heavier desktop environments (such as GNOME) and had good experiances feel free to tell me about them.
I'd also like some comments over hardware compatibility (assuming that Slackware doesn't offer much in terms of autodetection).
Debian Sarge is fast but for some reason I just cannot get my sound card to work. It's the same for my printer. Since both of these devices functioned just fine in Damn Small Linux, Debian, who is a more major player, was disappointing.

**kern** · 10-16-2005

thats not a dinosaur - slack'll run fine on it

**chopin1810** · 10-16-2005

Yeah, but my processor is. That's my only hindrance.

**msg43** · 10-16-2005

Slackware runs on a old laptop with 32MB of ram of course i don't use kde though I use openbox it slow as hell mainly because of the ram.

**Game master pro** · 10-16-2005

I run Slackware using KDE on a Intel Celeron, with 366mghz, and only 128mb on ram, you should do fine

**chopin1810** · 10-16-2005

It runs, but does it run nice? The really annoying thing for me is waiting for the windows to load, and KDE/GNOME takes up so many resources that they just sort of load a few parts of the window at a time...

**eyeinidas** · 10-16-2005

My old laptop had 128 megs of Ram on a PII 400Mhz. Only 6Gig HD. Slackware with KDE XWindow manager ran quickly. much quicker than the Windoze it replaced. Make sure to set a decent amount of swapspace the partition I set was like 1044 or something, Cant remember exactly. I copied it from a previous Debian Install. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Anyway, Slackware 10.2 ran good with it and all those live CD's I play with always found the swap space partition and used it too. DSL ran like greased lightening on it. I miss that old pos. I think I'll order the parts and fix it tomorow.

**chopin1810** · 10-16-2005

If it really runs that nicely it'll probably do fine on mine then

**Game master pro** · 10-16-2005

Originally Posted by chopin1810

It runs, but does it run nice? The really annoying thing for me is waiting for the windows to load, and KDE/GNOME takes up so many resources that they just sort of load a few parts of the window at a time...

uh... it's slower than windows i can say that but i still like it, although it takes about 10 seconds for konqueror to open =(

**kern** · 10-16-2005

use XFCE or fluxbox and your desktop experience will be very nice.

your processor is fine too

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