Breton and I are both happier now.

[vakkotaur]

2005 is starting better than 2004 ended. I wound up pulling all (two) cards from breton and moving the motherboard partly out, still leaving it mounted onto the side of the case, and could get at the memory slots more easily. The memory sticks snapped right in as they should. Now breton has 64 MB and is quite happy, as am I.

How happy is the machine? Let's see, I have four desktops on IceWM and I'm using them all. Spread across them, one xterm shows top. Another is just a shell access. And another is running rhapsody IRC. I have three Dillo web browser windows open, as well as the Pathetic Writer (that really is its name) word processor, a PDF viewer, and a file manager.

The top monitor reports:

CPU states: 3.4% user, 1.8% system, 0.0% nice, 94.6% idle
Mem: 63088K av, 58504K used, 4584K free, 41332K shrd, 2100K buff
Swap: 62492K av, 0K used, 62492K free 24604K cached


All that, and DeLi has yet to start hitting swap.

Comments

Sweet!

[foolscap001.livejournal.com]

I'll have to try out DeLi Linux on the old Pentium Pro box.

Re: Sweet!

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

DeLi is still beta and it shows in places. Also, the only graphical browser is Dillo (http://www.dillo.org/), which doesn't handle frames and its cookie handling (http://www.dillo.org/FAQ.html#q8) is shaky at best for the moment. I wouldn't suggest DeLi for primary use. But overall, it's a fun little distribution and lets older hardware be quite snappy.