You could consider OS/2 which has just been released in new version On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:53:06 -0400, STeve Andre' wrote:
>On Friday 20 August 2010 13:32:13 Simon Royal wrote: >> Hi >> I have been offered a new laptop - for free - and therefore will probably >> sell my ThinkPad 240x. Before it goes I will wipe the hard drive and >> reinstall an OS, simply because selling it without one will put a lot of >> people off. But which one? It has a 2000 COA sticker underneath and a >> 'Designed for Windows 2000' sticker on top. So which one would be better? >> 2000 or XP? >> Its a 500Mhz P3 model with 196MB RAM. >> >> Simon Royal >> >> >> --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: >> http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. --- IBM ThinkPad 240X >> running Linux Mint 9 LXDE & Windows XP Home - Apple iBook G3 running OSX >> 10.4. > >Windows 2000 is actually a more stable system. It's also faster. > >But MS cut off all life-support for it--no more updates, at all. This means >its only a matter of time before Win2K systems are going to be ripe for >plunder. If you *never*, and I mean NEVER put the machine on the net, >then Win2K is quite viable, except that there are now programs which >specifically won't run on Win2K. > >So... WinXP is the better bet. XP is the devil thats known, and with SP3 >it actually has most (but not all) of the security features of Vista. it's >slower though. Installing raw XP on a machine the other day, I was >really impressed with its boot speed. After applying SP3 and further >patches it went to its owner far more sluggish than before. > >Oh... 196M ram. Oh dear. Have you seen how honey flows outside in >the winter? Thats what your machine will feel like. Sorry... > >Are you welded to Windows? There are a lot of free OSs (Linux's and >the BSD variants) that would run far better in that kind of hardware >environment. > >-- >STeve Andre' >Disease Control Warden >Dept. of Political Science >Michigan State University > >A day without Windows is like a day without a nuclear incident. >_______________________________________________ >Thinkpad mailing list >[email protected] >http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
