Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 07:32:11 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] [LIBRETTO] What OS for 50CT
At 08:25 AM 11/03/2002 -0800, you wrote: >Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 10:17:52 -0600 >From: "Lines, Nick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [LIBRETTO] What OS for 50CT > >Hi All > >Well, I am coming to the party rather late as it were. Just >bought a 50CT off yahoo auctions, and am already in awe of >its power compared to my HP Jornada 680. My wife is already >bored of me saying "it's a *real* pc!"... Welcome! >I'm looking for your advice. (I've checked the archive >and there's some good stuff in there but I can't find >enough to make my mind up) > >My main uses are: > - mail / contact / calendar management > - storage for my digital camera > - route finding > - web browsing > - perl script development > - ASP web development > >So, what OS should I use? I am not keen on 95 due to its >general ickyness and refusal to be a real OS. At home and >at work I run Win2K professional which is fine on a 1.4GHz >Athlon with 512MB memory... I run RedHat 7 on a P90 that >is in my car for MP3 playing purposes so know that too. Well apart from general ickyness and refusal to be a real OS, is there anything else you object to in Win95? Because if not, I'd say it would *probably* be the best OS to use ... its nowhere near as bloated as Win98/98SE (98SE would be the next best choice) and in my experience it is rock solid in the 50CT (I had my 50CT for about 6 months before I sold it to my sister, in that time it crashed ONCE due to a misconfigured driver ... and it wasn't like I was treating it nicely or anything). Toshiba seem to have done a pretty good job with it as far as 95 drivers go. I'd imagine 98SE would be similarly stable but then again its got a pile of junk on there that you might not use. If 9x still icks you, consider NT4 which WILL run respectably and has pretty good driver support (but may be a problem for your digital camera depending on how it transfers stuff). Unfortunately I could never get NT4 working on my 50CT but I think that may more be a function of SP1's incompetance in disk recognition and my weird partitioning scheme more than anything else. Linux I'd steer away from unless you don't need to use X ... I know you can run X on 32 meg of RAM but given the OTHER stuff you must run you might as well run 9x for speed. Of course, with a 10 gig drive you COULD always triple boot (like me on my 100CT!) and experiment for a few months ... I've got a 'novel' somewhere in the archives explaining my procedure and headaches getting that sorta thing working on a 50CT if you wanna have a look. Pay special attention to the hibernation area (but then again if you've looked through the archives you're probably sick of that!). Hope this helps! - Raymond --- /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ | | "Does fuzzy logic tickle?" | | ___ | "My HDD has no reverse. How do I backup?" | | /__/ +-------------------------------------------| | / \ a y b o t | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | HTTP://www.raybot.net | | ICQ: 31756092 | Need help? Visit #Windows98 on DALNet! | \~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/ ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
