Ehhhhh..... I am just a tad confused here.
First of all, what does "performance" mean in your own personal context? The reason I ask this is because in Christmas of last year I purchased a Compaq Presario laptop off of Ebay, and proceeded straightaway to load Mandrake 8.1 on the little bugger. I immediately wiped the Windows partition without even booting it up in M$. With Enlightenment loaded and the system configured as a KDE workstation, I have apps pop up on the screen in no time flat; especially Abiword, since I myself happen to be an Abiword fan. Now admittedly I do NOT have the Gnome taskbar; I'm running pure Enlightenment; and to me this little system screams. I've had experience with Gnome, and although I will try to run all the GTK apps I can find, I tend to avoid those apps that require the gnome-core rpm (it's not installed). Now with that configuration, I've been very impressed with the application performance of this laptop; surprised, even. I have to admit though, your email surprised me even more. I really don't have an idea of what exactly you can be using for your basis of comparison, or how it could be valid, given my own experience. Here are the hardware specs: AMD 475 Mhz processor 96 meg ram 6 gig HD 800x600 generic laptop display Trident Cyberblade 3D Graphics chip On Thursday 07 February 2002 09:46, you wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Now can someone take what I just typed, make sense of it and throw me > > back on track. I guess my troubles have tarnished my view on linux. > > Just wanted to add my $.02. > > Linux has some problems. To get the performance of IE5 and Word97 on > Win95 with 48 MB and a 233 MHz processor, I needed 256 MB on a 700 MHz > processor (running Konqueror, primarily). (I run AbiWord on Windows, > when I'm not running Word97.) > > Linux will get there one day, and is already there at the server level. > The advantage of Linux is that it provides competition for Microsoft, > which is why I'm sticking with it -- trying to learn more, improve it > (if I can), and support it. > > I think it is in the best interests of all of us to push for viable > competition to Microsoft. > > It is unfortunate that some people feel mislead (myself included) by the > "promises" that we thought we heard about Linux. I want to be careful > about what I say about Linux -- I'd rather have somebody be pleasantly > surprised than unpleasantly surprised. > > Randy Kramer _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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