Comments on: Wolvix 1.1.0 on 450Mhz K6-2, 256Mb

By: Linux Mint Daryna on 450Mhz K6-2, 256Mb « Motho ke motho ka botho

Linux Mint Daryna on 450Mhz K6-2, 256Mb « Motho ke motho ka botho — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:12:43 +0000

[...] systems. My start times were over two minutes, which puts it somewhere in the reach of Wolvix — the XFCE-based version — but slower than MEPIS AntiX and Fluxbuntu, which are closer [...]

By: Thomas Clayton

Thomas Clayton — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:21:58 +0000

I was just looking for the most recent version of Firefox for Wolvix Hunter 1.1.0, when I saw a link (Google) to this page. I thought I’d compare experiences of others, to mine.

I USUALLY use / advise PCLinuxOS for ‘newbies’ – which, with regard to Linux, I myself, still am. I happened to be ‘clea(n/r)ing off the 8GB HDD in a friend’s old Dell Dimension V400 before handing it over to another friend for REcycling (Unitec Recycling of Villa Park IL USA). (Don’t worry it WILL get re-USED ‘downstream’ not just torn apart.) I hadn’t tried the Wolvix since I’d gotten it last year from On-Disk.com – so I thought this would be a good time to. The Dell has a 400MHz PII, 512KB cache, 256MB PC-100 RAM and a RO-DVD drv. (The latter was one of the reasons for trying ANY Linux: I’d thought ALL my distros were on DVDs.) Anyway the install went smoothly – I fiddled with partitions more than I needed to – and reboot from HDD occurred just as one would desire. It hadn’t detected my monitor (Generic instead of Gateway EV910B) so I reset the video display properties to take good advantage of its capabilities. (I’ll leave the resolution at 640×480 x256 colors (enhanced VGA) so anyone who ends up receiving this won’t blow-up their monitor.)

Performance? Just about like you describe. Slower than wrist snap response – some good few seconds before anything appears – but very tolerable in my opinion. (The question is: How spoiled are YOU?)

Anyway, despite the fact that I’ve left /many/ questions UNanswered, I gonna leave this reply, as is.

Now WHERE can I find Firefox 2.0.0.x (x= 12? 15? <-todays release)?

TomC

By: TinyFlux on 450Mhz K6-2, 256Mb « Motho ke motho ka botho

TinyFlux on 450Mhz K6-2, 256Mb « Motho ke motho ka botho — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:57:37 +0000

[...] and EmelFM are on hand for file management; and so forth. It’s not as comprehensive as, say, Wolvix, but it’s a healthy collection. You should find something here to fill your need, so to [...]

By: Hasher Majoka

Hasher Majoka — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:11:56 +0000

I’ve been running Wolvix on a couple of old machines as well as in a partition in my new laptop and I must say its absolutely great on hardware vintage AND new. Ultimately this is what Linux experience is all about for me: getting the maximum performance from your hardware without sacrificing usuability and aesthetics. Anybody who has installed both Xubuntu and Wolvix can see what a superior experience Wolvix provides with just a little ingenuity.
As well, I think the overall visual effect in Wolvix desktop is stunning without being flashy.

By: Arnold L. Johnson

Arnold L. Johnson — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:46:33 +0000

Hi all,
Just installed Wolvix Hunter, very nice inspite of the gray. Tried Puppy, liked it, but I needed a bigger dog. I was a little skeptical of anything good or recent coming out of Slackware, but Wolvix is smoking on my HP of recent vintage and I will load it on my old machine, no problem. I like having lower requirements even on the newer box.
I am tossed between Xfce and Fluxbox. I do not miss KDE at all, my Kubuntu box is very jealous. I would like to see more desktop artwork in the Wolvix vein. Wolvix has all of my favorite Linux stuff. What is cool is that I can use the same Linux on the desktop and as a rescue disk or on a jump drive. I was thinking of making a “powerpoint” type presentation to show off Linux but I can pop in the Wolvix CD and WOW anyone.
Another smallish Linux also Slack based is Goblinx, very flashy. In my final analysis I say that Puppy Linux proved to me that BIG Linux distros are overkill. Wolvix is in the sweet spot of being just right. The Slackware stuff tends to be faster it seems than other Linuxes, you think?

By: MEPIS AntiX on 450Mhz K6-2, 256Mb « Motho ke motho ka botho

MEPIS AntiX on 450Mhz K6-2, 256Mb « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 06:30:43 +0000

[...] installation tool, like Wolvix’s, was a good step easier to run than Ubuntu’s, in my experience. It handled [...]

By: S.

S. — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:08:16 +0000

Wolvix is very good indeed but I think you will find a version of Puppy that will provide a faster, if less comprehensive desktop and detect all your hardware, especially if you can throw 256Mb of memory at it.

By: tomiro

tomiro — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:54:53 +0000

Excellent!

I’ve also installed Wolvix on an older laptop with just 128MB RAM and it works very well.

I did get a slight performance increase with fluxbox, but not enough to warrant not using the more feature-rich Xfce Desktop.

I’m also getting about 1/3 more battery time when running Wolvix as opposed to Windows 98…I’m not sure why though?

By: Wolven

Wolven — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:22:32 +0000

Hey K.Mandla. Thanks for an interesting review.

A few days ago I found and old discarded computer which I salvaged and restored to working conditions again. It’s a PII 400Mhz with 192Mb RAM and I had to try installing Wolvix on it to see how it would run on old hardware. To my surprise it ran pretty well, no speed demon of course, but decent enough. Firefox is pretty slow to start though.

At first I ran the computer with an old ATi card using the VESA drivers. Needless to say the rendering was pretty slow using that, but after I installed an old GeForce2 card and got the NVIDIA drivers up and running things got much better.

Though Wolvix is not intentionally designed for old hardware I think it’s very interesting to see ‘how low you can go’ before it becomes unusable. Like Zlatan Kadragić says in his reply. Give Fluxbox a go and see if you notice any performance increase. Just press F1 twice at the login screen (SLiM).

Thanks again for the review and good luck on your future endeavors with the old box.

Cheers!

Wolven

By: Zlatan Kadragić

Zlatan Kadragić — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:29:36 +0000

You should try Wolvix with Fluxbox. That wm has smaller system requirements then XFce.