Re: Caution: OT: Vista (was Do you use DOS only programs?)
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Aug 13, 2008
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Seeing that modern linux kernels and distros still run on my pentium II, I can hardly blame them.
Vista will as well, just turn off any modern gui, revert back to the Win 95 styling and you will have no problem (but still a much better interface).
I wasn't aware that this was even possible. (For some reason, I thought the installer would check the CPU speed and RAM and refuse to allow the install if the system wasn't up to spec.)
If it is possible, and the native GUI runs reasonbly fast on such old hardware, then I have no choice but to concede that Vista represents a major advance in terms of backwards compatibility with older hardware.
Try running a modern linux kernel with a modern KDE GUI w/a few apps and see what happens 
I haven't done this in a few years, but last time I tried it the only problem I had was with speed.
Of course, taking 20 minutes to load a web page is pretty bad. Not even I could get used to that.
Won't work, thus you have a whole breed of light weight window managers (which I actually use on my system, cause who needs KDE? Ug.)
Jeremy
Agreed. One of the nice things about UNIX style systems - you still have the (very speedy) lightweight and headless systems. I've never heard of a headless windows server.
Windows 3.1's GUI was the best.
