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

[Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carl D Cravens wrote:

>On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Jonathan Hall wrote:
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>>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.
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>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.
>
RehHat 4.2 would easily fit on the laptop and everything it included 
would work well.


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