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So yours is faster than his?

Still, I'm *extremely* surprised by the time it takes yours 
to get to the CLI login prompt.

On Thursday 04 October 2001 07:20 pm, John Rye wrote:
> 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
> > >
> > > "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??)
> >
> > 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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