So, are they still using a compressed filesystem? That's one of my pet peeves about LiveCDs on older machines. Having to read, decompress, then run an app takes way too long on a slower system with little RAM. Swapping to disk (if setup) makes it a tad easier to run stuff, but is slow none-the-less. It's one of my problems with Puppy. Puppy is fast, and totally RAM resident, but they have a 150+ mb distro squeezed into a 64MB RAM space so just launching an app requires the wait for it to copy stuff around in RAM and decompress it. Puppy actually ran faster from the HDD on a old K6 system than as a RAM resident LiveCD, as it was all ready to run as soon as it hit the RAM.
On 8/21/05, Leo Mauler [email protected] wrote:
making KNOPPIX went hog-wild with all the space they have on a DVD, resulting in menus so big it takes