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On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> sorry sindi I just had to laugh of this whole setup. lovely :-). It
> would interest me if you got it going. But couldn't puppy run on that
> computer. Puppy is ekselent with youtube.
>
> mikkel

> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 4:56 PM,  <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org> wrote:
> > Can BL somehow be made to play youtube directly rather than downloading
> > first?  I have a Gateway Essential 866MHz tiny computer which came with
> > 64MB.  We put in 256MB (won't boot with more) but XP freezes up, as does
> > memtest.  XP is using 187MB out of 64MB, it says.  BL is usable in 64MB.
> > The intended user is elderly and wanted something easy to lift but wants
> > to watch knitting videos and cannot handle a roundabout method.
> >
> > Has anyone got BL working with Seamonkey and Flash?
> >
> > SLAX live CD did not crash yet but needs more than 64MB.
> >
> > Sindi Keesan

Puppy kept crashing, so did XP.  BL did not crash but I did not stress it 
much (disk 2 of BL3.5 would not even read in the flopy drive).  memtest
froze every time on test 2 at 7, 14, or 21%.  No dust, fans worked, heat 
grease adequate, so we recycled it and kept cpu, battery, CD burner,
hd and fd and memory.  We fixed two other similar machines with bad
capacitors on the board but did not see any here, yet the memory 
controller appears to be hopeless.

I put Puppy on a 30 lb DFI desktop, 1GHz, three DIMM slots, and she can
watch knitting videos at 3 frames/sec unless the faster video card makes
a difference, since 400MHz was 1 frame per 1 or 2 seconds.

Eventually I will get BL working with Seamonkey and Flash.

Sindi