I tried versions 1.8.5 and 1.9.3 and when it is starting stops booting with a problem about PAE (Physical Address Extension)
If Austrumi is good for old machines, why that problem?
My CPU is Intel Pentium 4 1.8 Ghz

There seems to be a version 1.9.5 downloadable from the homepage at Distrowatch – couldn’t find a link to it at the Austrumi site. Maybe they’ve fixed some of the issues?

I have tried 3 or 4 releases of Austrumi in the past, each time hoping for improvement. Alas, I have run into some sort of a glitch each time.

If Austrumi is designed to run in RAM, how do you preserve changed settings? Does it include a Remaster option?

Are you sure that it wasn’t VMWare that caused or contributed to the instability in the browser?

I didn’t try Austrumi 1.9.3 yet but I suppose it’s very easy to get a stable browser from the Slackware repositories. Of course it should be better if the browser just works out of the box!
I like Austrumi for its ever very nice look and for its amazing choice of applications compared to its size.
Infortunately, it doesn’t include ndiswrapper (at least the last version I tried) so I’m not able to connect to my network from it with my two PC’s.

manutd31 wrote:

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Thanks, glad you are enjoying the blog.

The first thing i noticed when i opened your site is the google ads in left side of the first paragraph…..Nice idea jim to move the Google adsense from right to the left of the starting paragraph……..it will surely give you a lot more eyeballs…I really appreciate you for that idea…I really enjoyed your idea to “buy jim a cup of coffee”….you are really a fantastic marketer who knows how to market your stuff……At the same time you are keeping the simplicity and readability in your blog….Really Linux need this kind of marketing to succeed in this world…

I am sorry to hear that Austrumi has such an unstable Web browser. Odd, too, because I have been running frequent nightly builds of both 3.6 (and even 3.7!) versions of Firefox from the Shiretoko, Minefield (and one other) code name, along with nightly builds of SeaMonkey, and I have not had a single problem with any of them. I have also occasionally been participating in the “Litmus Test” suites to feed back the Mozilla project on the results of Firefox and SeaMonkey builds. I am quite happy with them.

Given that Austrumi can’t seem to find a usable version among the many solid versions that are out there, nor provide even a single stable alternative, it does not seem worthwhile to use, though it certainly does seem to have many other desirable traits.

Also given that I have very fast builds of antiX, Puppy, Tiny Me, and Tiny Core, and I have them on disk, on CD, on USB, and in Virtualbox OSE, I am not particularly in need of another fast test system.

Thanks for the review though Jim. If I get the itch, I may give one of their versions a peek again. I’ve used Austrumi before, but it has been a while since I last tested it.

Nobody Important wrote:

@timck: Iceweasel is Firefox without the trademarks. Any differences you perceive would be crated by the difference in the browser name that websites see. Otherwise they are identical.

IceWeasel may be based on Firefox, but every version I have used has had problems. The latest version of Firefox, at the time, ran just fine on the same machine. The last IceWeasel I tried was in DreamLinux 3.1.

Now I just ignore any browser other than Firefox.

tlmck wrote:

Instead of Minefield, maybe they should call the browser “Fire in the hole!”.
I have been getting that same Firefox error message a lot since switching to 3.5 regardless of OS. As such, I have reverted back to the 3.0x series until Firefox decides to get their bleep together.
As to offering a good, lightweight, and stable web browser in these smaller distros, I have yet to find one. SeaMonkey and IceWeasel are the least offensive, but both still need lots of work. I always end up downloading Firefox.

Yes, I think “Fire in the Hole” would have been very accurate. Heh.

I use Swiftfox – i <3 it