-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > 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 - -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA | | | | "Those who would give up essential Liberty to purchase a | | little temporary safety, deserve neither Liberty nor | | safety." | | Ben Franklin | +------------------------------------------------------------+ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7vR/CjTz5dS9Us5wRAk3nAJ94VpNU3mbOVNtQIOLLwXHTE3D8ZgCfaDhH N4bGy2Weo6y8b5PbpkRRiJE= =awzU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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