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For slow hardware netscape or KDE konqueror are just too slow. that's why I choose opera. it actually is a little slow to load, but once loaded browses much faster than most others. if you like netscape you should try Mozilla Firebird or firefox or whatever it's calle this week. Mozilla is an open source version of netscape and firefox is a version that is just a browser, no mail or composer. I like its' elegance, but since my FAST machine is a 233MMX and I usually work on a 133MHz opera or dillo are about the only thing to use.
Knoppx is the most famous of the LIVE-CD Linux versions. just put the CD in a bootable drive and a little while later you have linux running- NO configuration. Knoppix is a project of Klaus Knopper from germany. Anyway, he wrote a C program called hwsetup that uses RedHats' kudzu libraries and hwdata. hwsetup is able to automatically recognize and configure most basic hardware. I have compiled hwsetup to run on Slackware 9.1 and in conjunction with some other scripts my system is able to configure itself the first time it boots so that by the time you get to the login all you have to do is type starx and you're running GUI! On these 100-233 MHz machines I have it takes about 1 minute for the system to configure mouse, keyboard, network card, graphics card and all IDE and SCSI drives. I have built this system around ZipSlack, so it runs from a FAT partition, but can be easily 'migrated' to a Linux partition and all configuration changes are saved.
The way I have it you just download the file, unzip it, reboot in DOS mode or with a DOS boot disk, type Linux and the rest takes care of itself. this will soon be available for download as AMIGO Linux. A couple of nice things- you can download, install and boot this without any CD or floppy drive and YOu can backup, transport or duplicate it by just making a zip file of the whole distro! 80MB download for a 160MB install. Runs with as little as 16MB RAM (with 16MB swap).

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Originally posted by subgenius
With Rox-Session and the openbox window manager you can
get a taskbar-type panel, desktop top icons and a right-click desktop menu.

Add Rox-Menu for a start-type menu, gkrellm for a clickable dsl/dialup
connection, and you have a fairly functional desktop without
KDE or Gnome.

Unfortunately, there are no official Slackware packages for any
of these programs so you would have to install/compile them by
hand.

Almost sure gKrellm has a package at http://www.linuxpackages.net

ROX-Filer doesn't have to be compiled

gkrellm is at linuxpackages - i love that site - thanx for the tip frandalla !! ;)

Amigo Linux - sounds cool - just send me a pvt message once the donload is up - i'd love to see whot u did with it - btw - i don't have FAT partitions anymore - i am 100% pure untamed SLACKWARE LINUX !!! and i LOVE every moment of it !! hehehehehehe -

well - i'll see if i can build me a nice 200MB slackware install - i am just really strugling with my screen card setups - it is giving me a headache !! i have a nVidia gforce 2 onboard with it's own screen and a voodoo3 2000 with it's own screen and for the life of me i can't get dri or gl to work for the voodoo card - i downloaded the software from DRI web site but as soon as i install it my voodoo don't work anymore - and if i install my nvidia drivers i get all sorts of funny error messages !!?!

Amigo still makea a great way to easily install Slackware. You just make a FAT partition and unzip Amigo there, then migrate it to a linux partition and turn the FAT into a swap partition!
I've been given space on ibiblio for a download area but am still working out the details.

cool - hehehe - i really wanna work on a LFS - that is my ultimate aim - building my own system with just whot i want -