Comments on: CRUX Linux on 450Mhz K6-2, 256Mb

By: I blame it on Crux « Motho ke motho ka botho

I blame it on Crux « Motho ke motho ka botho — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:03:50 +0000

[...] put together much the same setup as before, with a minimal Openbox system and a few utilities — Leafpad, emelFM2, Sakura and Firefox. [...]

By: CRUX Linux 2.4 on OLPC XO-1 « Motho ke motho ka botho

CRUX Linux 2.4 on OLPC XO-1 « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:51:01 +0000

[...] that was about it. Crux’s first boot is very, very slow — something I learned with the ugly little laptop — so be patient. And after that first boot, it’s much more lively. I get a startup time [...]

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:08:56 +0000

Lowarch is worth it, but only to a point. It's still functional, but it's already more than a year out-of-date, so it needs across-the-board updates, which is almost more work than it's worth. I've tried recompiling everything to try and bring it up to current, but it's frustrating. That 25-second boot was with CRUX, by the way, which works better than Lowarch really. There's a i586 ISO for 2.4 here, if you need an early version.

By: ikaruga

ikaruga — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:01:07 +0000

I’ve been meaning to ask K., exactly how did you get that 20 second boot time on arch (from a previous post)? By a custom kernel and no udev?

While I’m at it–is lowarch really worth it for old machines?

By: Video: 25-second boot on 450Mhz K6-2 « Motho ke motho ka botho

Video: 25-second boot on 450Mhz K6-2 « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:33:11 +0000

[...] CRUX Linux with a minimal setup of Openbox 3.4.4 on a 4200rpm hard drive using only ext2 partitions starts in 25 seconds, and that includes Internet access, 1024×768 video at 16-bit color depth (the video card can’t do 24-bit), sound, USB mouse and touchpad support and most other amenities. That’s a custom 2.6.20.3 compilation, with everything stripped out and only the essentials built directly into the kernel. Kernel size is 1.4Mb, and the leftover modules take up only 412Kb. [...]

By: Cheikh

Cheikh — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 02:09:23 +0000

No need to say that the Arch Linux founder used to be a Crux user. I personally don’t see a big difference between Arch and Crux the KISS philosophy is present in both distro. The only difference I have seen is that there is compiling in Crux when you install it you need to compile your kernel also every package is compiled locally before installion. In Arch someone else compile it for you and provide you with a fast package. I will probably try again Crux 2.4 on my old craptop which is running right now Yoper.

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:42:10 +0000

It’s worth it. I was amazed by Lowarch, but CRUX put it to shame. I highly recommend trying it, even just for fun.

By: Carlos Seo

Carlos Seo — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:33:58 +0000

Very fast boot… i will try to buy a cheap laptop to make something similar.

By: nathangrubb

nathangrubb — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 17:13:38 +0000

i’ve always wanted to get an older laptop and have it run some lightweight distro. Well at least you proved that you could run firefox on a 450mhz processor (although i’ve run it on the exact same CPU but at 500mhz)