On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I could well believe that Vista would struggle on anything less > than a Cray, but Linux isn't *that* demanding is it? >
Linux is an utter porker. ubuntu on my T23 is really awful, I fixed it by turning most of it off. They've fallen into the layers of abstraction trap, achieved more and more with the ever popular initialized structures (by ld of course) that point this way, that way, and every way. I had the fun experience recently of tracking a write system call via nfs3. Impressive that it works, impressive in its complexity, depressing in most ways. Just look at the OLPC stuff. Linux and Sugar environment now make XP look fast. Now that's a sad comment. Besides, most crays nowadays are made of opterons that run slower than your laptop :-) ron
