On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 18:14:37 -0500
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Thursday 04 October 2001 02:55 pm, John Rye wrote:
> > On Thu, 04 Oct 2001 07:32:06
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> > "Orkunt Sabuncu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Last night I tried to install LM 8.1. But it is lik nightmare.
> > > Firstly I have to say that my system is really old and I know LM
> > > with KDE cannot live in a system with a conf. of 200MMX, 48MB Ram
> > > and 96MB Swap. But i found this statement is no good for linux
> > > because I am running Win2000 Pro in this system without any
> > > problems and really fast. I do not want to start a debate of win
> > > and linux on old machines but in the light of this fact (being able
> > > to use win2000 happily) not able to use linux makes me crazy.
> >
> > A comparison for you..
> >
> > Pentium 133 32Mb Ram, 64mb Swap, LM8.0, kernel 2.2.19, ReiserFS.
> > 3x Quantum 1.2gig Bigfoots (or is that BigFeet??)
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> Pretty anemic h/w, by yesterday's standards. NT4 wouldn't be
> happy with it, either.
It certainly is.. However the point of my contribution has been missed.
And I only just realised why - I quoted the wrong bits :-(
The comparison was supposed show the original poster (Orkunt Sabuncu)
that my REALLY-old system was better behaved/faster than the one s/he
was describing.
I don't run any flavour of windows on it so I can't give you timings
for those, but as I recall Win95 OSR2 took around 1 min 30 from powerup
to desktop a couple of years ago.
Sorry about confusion..
Cheers
John
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