On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:45:22 -0800, Patty wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:22 AM, <pa...@cruzio.com> wrote: >> >> Now I think I understand a little better where you all are coming from >> -- I am a Unix person and I guess I expected to have to learn GUI's >> using whatever is provided for me by default. Which isn't a bad thing. >> And if I had to add additional software - and learn that - so be it. I >> am using a Windows XP system and a Windows 7 system presently. Some day >> I would like to switch out the Windows XP for Unix. > > Just dual boot, it isn't hard. > > > True. I have a Compaq Presario that is so old hardware-wise that I > don't think it could handle Unix or Linux.
I think you have that backwards. You can usually run recent Linux on *much* older and cruftier hardware than will run recent Windows. You may have to forgo using the two heavyweight window managers, Gnome and KDE, in favour of a lightweight window manager, but some people would argue that's a benefit rather than a loss :) Here's an article that might be of interest: http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT6185716632.html -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
