Maybe I'm getting on a bit, but I don't consider swapping operating system to be the best option in that case. Vista may be a memory hog, but it's usually easier in the long run to spend cash on 4GB for a laptop, than to install and faff around with a whole new operating system..
Linux running out of space due to kernel upgrades is obviously a configuration (hard disk partitioning) problem. Obviously I prefer BSD Unix to Linux, but the evidence does suggest the wrong Linux distribution was being used. On 11 June 2010 18:16, Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > My mates vista didn't have enough memory and was running rediculously > slow, he switched to Linux and it was all good but then when running > out of space due to so many auto kernel upgrades, kde wouldn't log in. > His bios battery went and so when his girlfriends mum pulled the plug > on his laptop at night and he booted in the morning, linux dropped to a > single user shell wanting fsck -fy; exit. He found setting the date > forwards sorted it and ended up at 2021 before he got it to me to have > a look. > > If OpenBSD ran flash and was easy for him to update he wouldn't have had > either of those problems. Maybe freebsd or pcbsd would have suited him. > I'm not sure.
