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06-06-2012, 12:52 AM
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Registered: Jun 2012
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Booting Nightmare
I have an Intel 810 P3 384 RAM. I have tried almost every PUPPY on it, but they all take ages to Boot (3-5 mins). Same problem with SLAX, SLATIZ, REACT, GOOGLE CHROME LINUX. Would be grateful for a solution.
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06-06-2012, 01:02 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Nov 2008
Location: Paris, France
Distribution: Slackware-14.0 on a Lenovo T61 6457-4XG
Posts: 2,788
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You could choose among distributions listed here. |
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06-06-2012, 01:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Didier Spaier
You could choose among distributions listed here. |
Thanx, shall try some of these. |
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06-26-2012, 09:10 PM
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You shall also consider light resources graph enviroments like: Fluxbox, Openbox, Ice-Wm, Ede, LXDE or similiar to that old PC, Anything like Gnome or KDE might work slow due to a more nowdays high sys reqs...
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06-27-2012, 03:54 AM
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Registered: Oct 2009
Location: Greece
Distribution: slackware-current
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Try Slackware 12.2! I have an AMD Durom with 512 ram and it works like a charm.
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06-27-2012, 02:20 PM
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Registered: Mar 2008
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I doubt you can speed up an old system. Some of those aren't bad choices. The fastest I had seen was xpud.
Guess you could go back to DSL.
Could see if trying a live usb would speed it up.
Last edited by jefro; 06-29-2012 at 03:44 PM.
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06-29-2012, 12:01 PM
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Location: AZ
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06-29-2012, 12:13 PM
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
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A couple of suggestions. Upgrade the RAM if you can, it will definitely help.
The second is not to sue a graphical boot. Boot into a text console and if you want a GUI after logging in select a mid to lightweight GUI (ie NOT KDE, GNOME, Enlightenment, Unity) such as OpenBox, FLuxbox, WIndowMaker or for a more complete but still not too heavy desktop XFCE and use startx to launch the GUI. It can be noticeably faster on some system than booting directly into the GUI.
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