[dundee] Re: slax

[John¹]

On Monday 30 June 2008 Nistur <nistur at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone had any experience with Slax? Or knows what might be causing
> this? 

I'll deal with the second question first, no I'm afraid that I don't know what 
might be the cause.

As to the first part of your question I have had some small experience with 
Slax, ( I have been a Slackware user since Windows 95 crashed on me just once 
too often, Slackware 7 I seem to recall), it always seems to take a long time 
to boot to the point where one can log in and use it. (A test shows at least 
two and a half minutes on my machine (Intel Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz). When I 
bought my daughter a Laptop without an OS recently, I used Slax to see if the 
hardware all worked with GNU/Linux, and it seemed to take forever on that, at 
least 5 to six minutes. Have you tried any other 'live' Distro's, are they any 
quicker? It could be that Slax is just slow in loading, if you are prepared to 
run comparative tests it may be useful to run some of the smaller live CD 
versions in the 200 Mb range for comparison.

Does it really matter if it works? Sorry not to be of anymore help.


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