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burnunitI posted a link to Puppy Linux yesterday and I'm actually trying it now on a Dell machine at the office--posting to this journal from the included Mozilla 1.8, in fact. It's pretty amazing how easy and fast it is. I'd like to test it on a truly older machine (128MB RAM, <1Ghz processor) and see how much difference the ramdisk implementation makes. The machine I have is capable of running Windows at 800x600, so I'm also a little vexed that puppy's XWM95 window manager defaulted to 640x480. But the speed more than makes up for it.
BUT SO much easier to use for a linux distro than some of the more ... shall we say... industrial strength versions, such as Debian or something. A little nervous about doing everything as root, but damn this is a sweet little system. Running mozilla, sodipodi, abiword, and an ssh client all at the same time right now and there's no hiccups, no nothing. This is practically a linux you could give your mom. (No, I gave linux to your mom, aww yeah). And between the live CD option and if you do a lot of stuff that can be stored on line (like journal, etc) why would you ever need your own hard drive? Well, I can think of a few reasons why, I'm just sayin.
I'm gonna try to use it to resurrect some old machines around the office.
BUT SO much easier to use for a linux distro than some of the more ... shall we say... industrial strength versions, such as Debian or something. A little nervous about doing everything as root, but damn this is a sweet little system. Running mozilla, sodipodi, abiword, and an ssh client all at the same time right now and there's no hiccups, no nothing. This is practically a linux you could give your mom. (No, I gave linux to your mom, aww yeah). And between the live CD option and if you do a lot of stuff that can be stored on line (like journal, etc) why would you ever need your own hard drive? Well, I can think of a few reasons why, I'm just sayin.
I'm gonna try to use it to resurrect some old machines around the office.