Re: {OT} Interesting view on Windows/Linux+Wine
Vincent wrote:
>
> irv mullins wrote:
>
> > My current computer will just barely run XP, but can't keep up if I try
> > to do more than one thing at a time. The same computer running Linux will
> > let me - let's see: right now, I'm downloading 5 2meg photos, compiling
> > a new version of a computer language, have 5 web browsers open, and
> > I'm writing this. I'm not worried about having to do it all over because
> > of a crash.
>
> Well maybe. Windows XP has very reasonable system requirements of a 233 MHz
> processor, 64 MB ram (128 MB+ highly recommended), etc. Now if your talking
> about the upcoming Windows Vista then your absolutly correct.
>
> The requirements for Linux depend greatly on which desktop environment you
> use.
> I'd say Windows XP has a simular requirements to a Linux distrobution with the
> Enlightenment, Fluxbox, or XFCE (maybe) desktops environments. But if your
> talking
> the latest Gnome or KDE the minimal system requirements are easily 800 MHz to
> 1 GHz and 256 to 512+ MB of memory, plus a fairly decent graphics card.
>
> Of course you can run KDE and Gnome on lesser systems, but you will pay the
> price of poorer performance and system responsiveness. On a 233 MHz system
> with
> 64 MB RAM, KDE or Gnome would probably be unbearably slow.
>
>
> Regards,
> Vincent
No it isn't. I've run Mandrake 10.0 with KDE & Gnome on a laptop like you
described and it runs very smoothly. Whereas running XP on the same computer is
slower and uses much more memory and HD space.
Jeremy
Edmund Burke: "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do
nothing."
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