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Re: Advice needed to speed up very slow machine



On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 04:50:08 +0200, Don Jackson wrote:
> I have installed sarge with kernel 2.4.26 on it -- no problem.  Actually, 
> everything works fine on it, with KDE and Kmail and Mozilla-Firefox as my 
> choices (since that's what I'm using myself).  The problem is that with only 
> a 166 MHz processor speed and the limited 96MB of RAM, the machine is 

I've just been inspired to try netscape 4[1] on my p233 laptop, and this
thing flies (especially compared to firefox). Some websites will
probably look a little interesting due to partial stylesheet support,
but hey, it was *the* main browser of the world for quite some time.

[1] you need a sources.list entry for contrib, not sure whether its
woody or sarge though.
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