these are: mga.ko does not load, it fails. LIRC does not work as I have heard. On my laptop the bare HD performance dropped from 14 to 12 MB/s. As I have patched my 2.4 with O(1) scheduler and kernel preemption I don't see any reason to bother with the latest stuff and invest time just to get it going and not noticing too much improvement afterwards. 2.6 may be even nicer, but I can wait until it has matured a bit and all applications can handle it.
Even worse, it is not my machine and it only has Win98 on a small HD running, no swap and no messing with the partition table. I am thinking of a customized Knoppix without all "fat" programs like KDE, Mozilla on it. Some people used to work on these machines with Linux back in the days, right? So there must be useful thin and graphical programs out there to customize a live CD. Opera should do fine as a browser, I think. Email: sylpheed perhaps, XFCE as desktop and so on.
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mga.ko does not load, it fails.
LIRC does not work as I have heard.
On my laptop the bare HD performance dropped from 14 to 12 MB/s.
As I have patched my 2.4 with O(1) scheduler and kernel preemption I don't see any reason to bother with the latest stuff and invest time just to get it going and not noticing too much improvement afterwards. 2.6 may be even nicer, but I can wait until it has matured a bit and all applications can handle it.
Even worse, it is not my machine and it only has Win98 on a small HD running, no swap and no messing with the partition table.
I am thinking of a customized Knoppix without all "fat" programs like KDE, Mozilla on it. Some people used to work on these machines with Linux back in the days, right? So there must be useful thin and graphical programs out there to customize a live CD. Opera should do fine as a browser, I think. Email: sylpheed perhaps, XFCE as desktop and so on.
I am looking for a live CD to run on a PII with 64megs of RAM. If there isn't any out there, I guess I have to do it myself.