[linux-help] Re: Kool download complete linux off of CD Works

[bruce <bbales@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 17 December 2002 09:44 pm, you wrote:
>
> > > I downloaded it and burned it to a cd.  IT WORKS runs
> > > totally off of the cdrom!!!  Anybody wanting a copy of it
> > > email me and we can get together. Or, you can follow the
> > > link and download the image (iso) file.  700 Meg! Grab a
> > > cup of coffee.  It even has wine, open office and KDE
> > > desktop, real KOOL!!
>
> You're Looking at the future here so keep an eye on it.

Well, UUUHH, Maybe not yet.

It may not be a fair test, trying it on such a minimal machine, 
but I loaded it on to my 133MHz, 32MB, 40X CDROM server machine 
and It does most of what it should.  But very, very, very 
slowly.  It is doing something with the hard disk, I suppose it 
uses it for a swap file.

The screen is 640x480 virtual 1024x768 and the mouse cursor 
moves it around as it should, but slowly.  Repeated use of 
cntl-alt-plus brings up two other screens which are out of sync 
with this monitor.

It comes up in KDE 3.0 (eventually) and surprised me by loading 
pages from the internet with Konqueror.  Took about a minute to 
bring up my home-page, but took four minutes to bring up the 
main google page.  It somehow found the correct 192.168.xxx.xxx 
number on the hard disk to get out through my firewall.

It found the sound system and played a song with xmms, but it 
was unrecognizable since it was running at about one-fourth 
speed (the clock on xmms took about four seconds to change one 
second).

A terminal window took over five minutes to come up in KDE, 
partly because I clicked on the icon twice (seeing nothing 
happening at first, I clicked again) and it eventually brought 
up two terminal windows.

cntl-alt F2 puts you back to the text mode and this worked a 
little slow, but otherwise pretty normal.  Getting back to KDE 
requires cntl-alt F5 instead of the normal cntl-alt F7.

All things considered, I was quite impressed with it, in 
particular, what a good job it did in configuring.  Found and 
identified the sound card, the ethernet card, the graphics 
card, keyboard, and mouse.  When I can get my hands on 
something with more memory, I want to try again.  I suspect not 
enough memory is the main bottle-neck.  And see what happens 
with a blank hard-drive.
bruce
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