On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 04:31:17AM EDT, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> I don't know about their more recent consumer-grade offering but > >> you may want to take a look at Windows '98. When I got the laptop, > >> it came with a 20-page or so manual. But then considering the > >> "capabilities" of the OS that was probably overkill anyway.
> > That wrongly assumes anything Windows is a modern OS, when in > > reality it's just a rehash of the worst ideas CP/M and VMS had to > > offer. > Because MS-bashing on a Debian-centric list does wonder for promoting > the usage of FOSS software, right? I'm not promoting anything. A bit of anti-M$ trolling is always fun and could get the party going. :-) > Maybe you forgot how great of an OS Win98 was at the time. That was a > different world than today, and even now seeing how responsive Win98 > is on old hardware (it flies on 64 MiB RAM) On a 650Mhz with 384 MiB RAM laptop, Windows 98 was NOT "flying" by any stretch of the imagination.. it was.. hmm.. tolerably sluggish. Unless you went crazy & started opening windows by the handful, of course. If you did, MTBF was about two hours. > it makes me wonder why Debian is sometimes sluggish on 512 MiB > machines with >1 GHz procesors. Stop wondering and start thinking. :-) You must be using one of the M$ Windows clones as your "desktop". Well, if you find it unbearably slow, you must upgrade your hardware. Else, take the consequences like a man or switch back to the linux console. CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org