I guess it really depends on what you do with your system. I like to
push mine right to its limits, running stuff like Windows in VMware
(which is reasonably usable) and having several different web browsers
open on a GNOME desktop. I've noticed that KDE and especially IceWM
are faster than GNOME, but I find that GNOME suits my needs better
(nothing can compare to Sawfish and the GNOME Panel :-)
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 18:26, Adams, Jamie wrote:
> I dont know why you lot should be chuggin'. Im using a Toshiba
> Satellite 2520CDT (AMD K62-300) with 64mb ram and a 4.1gig HDD,
> everything runs perfectly on mine, much faster than 98 did! no
> complaints here.. --
> Jamie Adams
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> >----------
>
> From: Sridhar Dhanapalan[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> >Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Sent: 15 June 2001 07:33
> >To: Jay needs a Guinness; Linux List
> >Subject: Re: [newbie] Wow
> >
> >On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 14:58, Jay needs a Guinness wrote:
> >> You are chuggin'?!!??!! I still have a Compaq 2266 with a Cyrix
> >> 225MHz. Thank God I installed more RAM and a new hard drive. Me
> >> PC is horribly obselete. But, not to disappoint you all, the new
> >> computer I buy will be the new Dual Proc Mac with OS X. I refuse
> >> to buy Windoze ever again, and I miss Macs.
> >
> >If I didn't have 256MB of RAM and a 12GB hard drive (which was
> >absolutely massive when I bought it in 1998), I would've gone nuts
> > a long time ago. My computer may be a bit on the slow side, but
> > it's *just* (only just) fast enough to run GNOME with apps like
> > Konqueror with anti-aliased fonts.
> >
> >I hope you don't plan on abandoning GNU/Linux entirely. Remember,
> >Mandrake have a PPC Mac version in the works -- it's currently at
> > the beta 1 stage, so it should be out quite soon. It even has a
> > nifty app (Mac on Linux) that'll allow you to run Mac apps in
> > Linux! If you're interested, there's a good FAQ list for Mac on
> > Linux at
> >http://www.ibrium.se/linux/overview.html.
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan.
"There are two major products that come from Berkeley:
LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
-- Jeremy S. Anderson
