whats the minimum hardware requirements for slackware13?

Mark Pettit · 09-13-2010, 01:28 PM

3 watt light bulb

chetamonye · 09-13-2010, 04:41 PM

Had a ThinkPad 300E(366 mhz) with 192 megs of ram and a 12 gig(upgraded) hard drive. My daughter ended up using it for high school until it would boot up anymore. Had the best laptop keyboard I have ever used.

I ran into some problems with xorg, but I just copied a previous xorg.conf from a Slack 11 install. Everything worked just fine after that.

Chet

turf · 09-13-2010, 10:03 PM

it worked in my PIII computer but it sometimes hang so i install back the zenwalk..

Code:

root[proc]# cat cpuinfo 
processor	: 0
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 8
model name	: Celeron (Coppermine)
stepping	: 10
cpu MHz		: 897.094
cache size	: 128 KB
fdiv_bug	: no
hlt_bug		: no
f00f_bug	: no
coma_bug	: no
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 2
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pse36 mmx fxsr sse up
bogomips	: 1794.18
clflush size	: 32
cache_alignment	: 32
address sizes	: 36 bits physical, 32 bits virtual
power management:

GazL · 09-14-2010, 04:13 AM

I used to run a P3-800 with 128MB ram and a 32MB Geforce 256 card with Slackware 12.2. It was workable (though sluggish) for things like Firefox under WindowMaker as long as you didn't open too many tabs at once. Even xine managed to play dvds/videos on it. When I upgraded it to 13.0 I found it became too sluggish. Whether the slowdown was introduced by the updated Xorg, or kernel, or libraries I have no idea, but it just didn't feel comfortable any more.

BTW, it used to take 3 hours to compile the generic kernel and modules on that thing!

brianL · 09-14-2010, 04:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Mark Pettit

3 watt light bulb

You've installed Slackware on a 3 watt light bulb? I am impressed!

Ilgar · 09-14-2010, 06:04 AM

I can use Slack 13.1 with XFCE on a 733 MHz PIII machine with 256 MB RAM and a 32 MB TNT2 graphics card (with the latest Xorg update I now have a working nouveau driver, too

). Of course it's not very speedy, partly due to the slow disk r/w speed, but XFCE is quite usable even when Firefox is running. I would definitely recommend fluxbox if you have less RAM, though.