On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 11:00 PM, Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joshua Penix wrote: > > On Mar 23, 2008, at 2:46 PM, Tracy R Reed wrote: > > > >> I am betting it won't be able to do as much as the Linux version due > >> to resource usage and lack of support for the hacked down XP install. > > > > Sadly I'm seeing a lot of less-technical EEE users giving the Xandros > > distro a quick spin, and then wiping it and loading Windows XP. The > > worse part is that they tend to follow up a few days later with "hey XP > > is so much smoother on this, I'm staying with it." > > > > On modern hardware, even scaled down stuff like the EEE, Windows XP is > > pretty tight and speedy (remember, it came out in 2001). There's > > software called nLite that makes it ridiculously easy to strip down an > > install well underneath the storage requirements of even the 2GB EEE. > > I was about to make this comment as well. We're used to talking about > Windows as a bloated pig in the context of current Windows and current > hardware. > > So, in 2001 that's probably something like a Pentium III 1GHz. Not that > much different from the EEE. And the EEE gets an advantage in that RAM > is faster, FSB is faster, and hard disk is faster (but smaller). > > That's going to be a pretty nice XP machine. Of course, most people are > going to install a pirated version of XP, but that's another issue. > > Contrast this against the bloated pigs that are Gnome and KDE combined > with weak Linux graphics drivers and interactive latency issues and you > have a walking advertisement for Windows. >
MS actually put out a Version of XP called XP Essentials at one time. I don't know if they still do, but it is exactly what you're talking about. A stripped down, light, quick XP designed to run on lightweight PCs and laptops. It ran everything I threw at it on an old P-III laptop that I setup or one of my old consulting clients. The regular version of XP on the same laptop ran somewhere between a snails pace and crashing outright. XP Essentials can't be upgraded to the heftier versions, but you can update it. I've always thought MS missed a great opportunity to redesign the crappier parts of Windows with this. Then again, they were making way too much money on the regular versions to do that. RD -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
