[aclug-L] Re: Linux as an alternative to a Windows desktop

[Carl D Cravens <raven@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Jonathan Hall wrote:

> My laptop (486DX2/50, 24mb RAM, 10gb HD) is living proof that Win95 is
> better than Linux for GUI operation on limited hardware.  I have both 95
> OSR2 and Linux (Debian woody) installed.  I don't even bother using X any
> more.  For a while, when my main PC was down, I used that laptop as my main
> home computer, and used it in 95 the whole time (nearly 6 months), b/c it
> was so much faster than X with the most basic configuration was in Linux.

I'm not sure you're comparing apples to apples here.  Go find a 1995 or so
version of the linux kernel (smaller than what's in Woody), and use
something like fvwm (or even mwm, and preferably from 1995 if it's
changed much) as your window manager.

Or, to go the other route, run Windows 2000 on your laptop.  Or try to...
it probably will refuse to install.

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