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["rvijay07" <rvijay07 AT myway.com>]

The PC I am trying to recycle is almost 10 years old. It is actually 100MHz 
but then had an upgrade to 200 MHz Processor. It has like 64 Megs ram on it 
but no HD as it crashed. When I try to go online with DSL on this it crashes. 
So I wish to put BL on it.

Your response was excellent. It is a great info./reminder of what BSL is, 
isn't, can and can't do. After using all the bloat distros, keeping this in 
mind when working with older PCs is important.

I am just trying to get familiar with BL on this faster/better machine before 
putting it on the slower/older one.

A general local observation. Locally, in stores anything lesser than 80Gigs 
is considered "primitive" by the sales staff. Dell had a new deal for a PC 
recently with 2.4GHz 80G HD for 300 bucks Canadian !!! The urge to buy new 
rather than upgrade is quite high. three years down the road this used will 
be sold for like 100 bucks. At such low prices who will want a 500MHz pc ? 
Sadly this will add to a lot of IT waste. Hopefully projects like BL will 
help to recycle them all.

Vijay

 --- On Mon 03/07,  < 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org > wrote:
From:  [mailto: 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org]
To: rvijay07 AT myway.com
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 19:10:06 +1300
Subject: Re: [BL] Reflections on the Switch-off problem.

rvijay07 wrote:<br>><br>> How come this problem doesn't occur with other 
Distros <br>> on the same PC ?  I have used FreeBSD, DamnSmallLinux, <br>> 
Debian, Knoppix, Knoppix hd install etc., on this same PC. <br>> None have 
posed the problems like this one.<br><br>How old is your PC?  AFAIK all of 
the distros you mention<br>above are targeted at recent hardware.  So they 
are aware<br>of hardware (eg USB) that is alien to BasicLinux.  They <br>have 
much larger kernels, designed to cope with a wider <br>variety of hardware 
combinations.  <br><br>BasicLinux, on the other hand, is targeted at 486s 
and<br>low-end Pentiums with limited RAM.  It has a tiny kernel <br>with 
limited capabilities suitable for really old hardware.  <br>As the name says, 
BasicLinux provides basic Linux tools<br>in a very small 
footprint.<br><br>Yes I know, DamnSmallLinux is supposed to be targetted at 
<br>old hardware.  But try running it on a 486 with 8mb RAM.<br><br>> 
Moreover, if there are such challenges with Basic Linux, <br>> makes me 
wonder what other similar MINOR but critical <br>> challenges/issues are 
there or can be encountered in the <br>> future with BL ?<br><br>Oh there are 
plenty of challenges.  BasicLinux does not make <br>things easy.  It does not 
auto-diagnose your hardware, it <br>does not provide user-friendly 
point-and-click configuration.<br>You've got to get your hands dirty with 
BasicLinux (but some<br>of us see that as a good 
thing).<br><br>Cheers,<br>Steven<br><br>____________________________<br>http://www.basiclinux.com.ru<br>

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