On Jul 23, 10:10 am, Daniel Eggleston <[email protected]> wrote:
> My point is not that bloat does not exist, but that it is not in unicode.
> You explained many windows-specific foibles (the FS block size is an issue
> with any reasonable file system, and hard drives are very cheap these
> days). Any text based linux distro, even with unicode on, will be extremely
> fast on even a 133 MHz 486SX with 64MB ram. By all means, eliminate bloat,
> but I think you will have a difficult time installing & maintaining an
> ANSI-only system, for little benefit.
>
> Daniel
Well, you may be right. And maybe I won't be able to find anything.
That won't stop me from trying though *D
I actually would have switched over to linux a while ago, but there's
been hardware-related issues, mostly with video cards and sound cards.
I've also written a lot software with VB, C, Delphi, etc. The idea of
not having these programs available to me anymore gives me the
shivers. Porting them over is not going to be easy. Command line
programming won't be a problem, but I don't have a lot of familiarity
with LINUX GUI programming. I know a little Java, but I don't like it.
I tried to download Kylix, but I couldn't find it. I'm hoping I will
be able to get free pascal properly configured. Might be able to make
some good things happen with that.
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