pfarrell;320781 Wrote: > If you have a system that can happily run XP, I think there is no real > difference. > > If you have a machine that is marginally old/slow/small, than Linux > will generally run a bit better. I found it may work about as fast with > 256MB less ram, and a model or two slower processor.
Another thing possibly worth considering is how much you'll be using whichever theoretical computer for other stuff. My SqueezeCenter started out on an XP box with a gig of RAM. It's the same machine on which I do the vast majority of my e-mailing, surfing, audio editing, Quicken, etc., blah, blah, blah. SqueezeCenter worked more often than not, but was not completely stable, probably in part due to Windows being...well, Windows...and partly simply because I was constantly using the computer for all kinds of stuff. I got huge stability boosts all the way around when I moved SqueezeCenter, Firefly (mt-daapd for my old Roku Soundbridge) and Apache off my Windows box and onto a slightly less powerful (but with twice as much RAM) Ubuntu 8.04 box. Everything running on the Ubuntu box is much stabler than it was under Windows and the Windows machine is now much more stable because three server apps have been removed. I'm not overwhelmingly comfortable monkeying around with Linux, but getting this stuff working wasn't particularly difficult. Of course, I had help from these very forums! -- atrocity ------------------------------------------------------------------------ atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49951 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
