Re: [R] Ubuntu vs. Windows

2008-04-26 Thread George N. White III
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Doran, Harold wrote: Dear List: I am very much a unix neophyte, but recently had a Ubuntu box installed in my office. I commonly use Windows XP with 3 GB RAM on my machine and the Ubuntu machine is exactly the same as my windows box (e.g., processor and RAM) as far as I

Re: [R] Ubuntu vs. Windows

2008-04-23 Thread Douglas Bates
On 4/22/08, Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Peter Dalgaard wrote: Doran, Harold wrote: Dear List: I am very much a unix neophyte, but recently had a Ubuntu box installed in my office. I commonly use Windows XP with 3 GB RAM on my machine and the

[R] Ubuntu vs. Windows

2008-04-22 Thread Doran, Harold
Dear List: I am very much a unix neophyte, but recently had a Ubuntu box installed in my office. I commonly use Windows XP with 3 GB RAM on my machine and the Ubuntu machine is exactly the same as my windows box (e.g., processor and RAM) as far as I can tell. Now, I recently had to run a very

Re: [R] Ubuntu vs. Windows

2008-04-22 Thread Abhijit Dasgupta
My naive understanding of this (I switched to Ubuntu a year ago from WinXP for similar reasons) is that Ubuntu as an OS uses less memory than WinXP, thus leaving more memory for computation, swap space, etc. In other words, Ubuntu is lighter than XP on system resources. Abhijit Doran, Harold

Re: [R] Ubuntu vs. Windows

2008-04-22 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Doran, Harold wrote: Dear List: I am very much a unix neophyte, but recently had a Ubuntu box installed in my office. I commonly use Windows XP with 3 GB RAM on my machine and the Ubuntu machine is exactly the same as my windows box (e.g., processor and RAM) as far as I can tell. Now, I

Re: [R] Ubuntu vs. Windows

2008-04-22 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Peter Dalgaard wrote: Doran, Harold wrote: Dear List: I am very much a unix neophyte, but recently had a Ubuntu box installed in my office. I commonly use Windows XP with 3 GB RAM on my machine and the Ubuntu machine is exactly the same as my windows box (e.g.,