Comments on: Maybe it just takes three minutes

By: Surprised, and not surprised: Feather Linux at 150Mhz, 32Mb « Motho ke motho ka botho

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 01:48:56 +0000

[...] In a world where Gnome Ubuntu setups on reasonably quick but slightly out-of-date machines can take a full three minutes, two minutes for a Pentium to load Feather Linux is an [...]

By: Flabbergasted « Motho ke motho ka botho

Flabbergasted « Motho ke motho ka botho — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:30:53 +0000

[...] Ubuntu to boot in under three minutes. In fact, about a year ago when I still had a 2Ghz machine, three minutes was still the best I could do. And the only way to get Gnome to finish loading any faster was to put together a custom kernel, [...]

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:46:11 +0000

I’m not sure. The lowest memory I’ve used it with was 192Mb, which is not sky-high, but certainly didn’t spit out any errors you might have to check the mailing lists to see if there are any suggestions. Let me know what you find out; I’ve been contemplating picking up that XPiCD I’ve wanted for a few months, but they don’t run with more than 48Mb, and not being able to run Crux would be a factor in my purchase, so to speak.

By: dawn

dawn — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 10:57:58 +0000

Speaking about CRUX, I tried to install it on an old machine once but the memory — 55 Mb — wasn’t enough. (The machine is running Arch now). Do you know whether I can get it to do a “low memory” install?