-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 07:50:21PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> I was just *waiting* for someone to open the door and let us >> greybeards play "remember when"!!! >> >> Remember when Win95 ran well with 16MB RAM? (Shame on you!!) >> >> Remember when OS/2 ran *great* with 16MB RAM? >> >> Remember when Doom ran great on Linux and fvwm, with 16MB RAM and >> et4000/W32p video card? > > And I suppose when Vista has been out for a while (people wont have any > choice when they buy a new machine, unless they buy one without an OS) > 256M or even 512M will be considered old and we'll see questions like > "Will KDE run in 512M?" >
Interesting that you mention that. Here, it's already almost impossible to buy a machine that doesn't come with Vista. You have to either build one yourself, or ask the small Mom & Pop computer stores to build one for you and not to install an OS. I tried the last time I bought a computer through a normal retail outlet to get it without Windows XP, but they refused to refund the price of XP, even after I showed them the license. One thing you can count on though is that if you have a machine the meets the specs to run Vista, it will do very well indeed running Debian (or any other flavor of GNU/Linux). The only problem one needs to look out for is certain hardware. Still, I have a old Celeron 600mhz with 16MB acting as a server running Sarge. It works fine. The computer was heading to the dump and I thought I could rescue it and put it to some use. It does not have a GUI, and doesn't need one. If Sarge will run on that, I'm sure it will run a 486. I don't know why someone would want to install Woody since it's about to be moved to the archives. I can understand if someone was still running it, and was afraid of upgrading. Joe -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF1wkFiXBCVWpc5J4RAn2bAJ0RzI5cm2lZSBUSR6sVggkiqO1WaACeP8V7 0i/VEMidzCBbvwMxHV8ws+g= =oZ39 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]