DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: Change of applications



I'm currently using DSL as a desktop, and I use xmms quite a lot, and mplayer.

Also, if you want these changes for a personal need, you could always remaster DSL yourself too.
I do agree with you Thulemanden DSL works in a weak hardware but not enought  fast, and the apps inside the distro are heavy for old hardware, DSL focus to be small but not fast.
I want to stress that you can remaster your OWN dsl flavour. that's the point. make it slimmer and faster, if you need so. You CAN do it. With other distros you cannot. That's enought flexibility, in my humble opinion.
and also..no firefox no internet. dillo is for theorical discussions. When it comes to buy an item on ebay or a flight ticket..you need firefox. Be it big or not.
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Quote (Thulemanden @ July 12 2006,17:12)
I see the biggest prize being running a low powered machine as a web server (and for email). http://83.92.35.50 later www.opaj.info 233mHz, 2GB, 128mb, Compaq Armada 7770DMT 1997 labtop.


Funnily enough at work we are running an old PII motherboard of a USB stick as a ruby based testing server, for a total cost of 50 UKP. I've used junk laptops to form temporary internet cafes for various functions too.
Then at home I have a really ancient compaq p100 that runs as (very slow) but useable desktop, so useable in fact that papers to academic journals have been submitted from it. A more upto date laptop, became my main home machine whilst moving house, allowing me to keepp on top of things.

So what am I saying ?
Well to throw my 2c into the hat, I'd welcome DSL bare as it would make life easier at times, but I'd want the full plug in & go system too.

And Xmms I use it every night to stream music from my debian based server to the laptop which is wherever I'm working at the time  :D
DSL on a pII 266 compaq armada 96M ram beats windows (any version) for speed and functionality as a desktop hands down.  Windows doesn't even come close.  

Fluxbox is required for most internet use (don't know about opera haven't used it for a long time) unless you want to vist basic pages you could use lynx for (I use dillo sometimes if I just want to shut down my freesco router).

You would be hard pressed to find any windowing environment that goes faster on older machines.  On machines like that you are limited to linux as server/cli setup or dos.  

On my laptop windows 95/98/xp won't even recognize many pcmcia cards (automaticly recognized in DSL) even after searching for hours for drivers and trying to get them installed.  

So DSL as a desktop is the best alternative (unless you want to go to basic linux or something like that)

DSL is like a mars bar, craves the hunger (for a desktop on older machines).
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