I'd like to preface this message by saying I understand your point about the user-friendliness of Suse vs. DSL.
When I say "not run very well" I mean 5 minutes plus of waiting to even start Gnome under Debian Sarge on a 64MB machine. I do not know how long it really took because I rebooted into Fluxbox before it finished. I did not even want to attempt starting up OO.o (Java based!!!!) Modern graphical distributions are practically unusable with 64MB of RAM. I know; I've tried them on 64 MB machines. Andrew Baudouin Applications Programmer AWC, Incorporated [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Brad Bendily [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 12:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [brlug-general] Distribution of linux to the masses "not run very well" and "Not run at all" are two different things. He's going to be selling these computers to people who don't currently own a computer. They probably don't have any bearing for how fast or slow Windows is so a slow Linux probably won't make a difference to them. Most likely these people have never used Windows so there won't really be a Windows->Linux learning curve. So at least with Suse they might be able to get help from someone or the net, but with Damn Small Linux when they ask for help they're just going to get strange looks. Hmm... well they'll probably get strange looks either way, but ... BB _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
