On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 14:10, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > John Sunderhaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I just don't see how its physically possible to install Linux on a > > machine with less than 256MB and a nameless monitor and find happiness - > > unless you like working at the command prompt. > > I run gnome2 at work. Machine is a celeron 466 with 64 megs of ram. I > use evolution for mail, and mozilla for the net. That's the heaviest > software I run. It runs ok unless I run both at the same time. I run > windowmaker on a laptop pentium 100 with 48 megs (even enlightenment > is usable). It's livable. > > Lighter window managers and apps make a huge difference. > > Bijan > > It's livable, yes; but are you content with just working around windoze? As much as I like, admire and respect Bill Gates (and his victory vs. IBM), I'd like to push his campus in Redmond into the Pacific ocean.
Debian is the distro to do this - along with the FSF and other cohorts. I (and my users) need to be happy - and simply doing things to just to work around windoze won't cut it. Linux (and/or the BSD's) need to perform decisively better than windoze, or the users aren't going to go for it. And to reiterate - the linux core I currently have on my machine beats the daylights out of the windoze core (I think - MS's core is under lock and key); this is fundamentally necessary if the FSF movement - and other similar movements are going to survive against the jaugernauts of MS, IBM, etc. Who is going to win this battle? Its the $$$$ vs. the volunteers - and though money generally wins these sorts of battles, what little money I have is on the volunteers. Kinda reminds me of the revolutionary war... But your point is well taken; you can productively run X on an underpowered machine - but I'll bet you aren't happy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
