Booting Nightmare

matt45 · 06-06-2012, 12:52 AM

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.

Didier Spaier · 06-06-2012, 01:02 AM

You could choose among distributions listed here.

matt45 · 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.

acal3000 · 06-26-2012, 09:10 PM

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...

notihnio · 06-27-2012, 03:54 AM

Try Slackware 12.2! I have an AMD Durom with 512 ram and it works like a charm.

jefro · 06-27-2012, 02:20 PM

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.

travalon · 06-29-2012, 12:01 PM

I think we have similar systems: here's my thread:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...op-4175412412/

NyteOwl · 06-29-2012, 12:13 PM

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.

DavidMcCann · 06-30-2012, 12:37 PM

I run Salix on a 600MHz Pentium M, and I know it runs in 256MB, so it should be fine on your computer. If you find it a bit sluggish, Swift is good: they recommend a P2.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/review...page/15/sort/7
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