> 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. >
I have seen it run very well on much less hardware, though the machine was not networked. I do agree about the stability. I think that they reset that machine at lunch break as a preventative measure, ie, four hours of uptime at most! >> 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". > KDE 4.2 at the moment, which is acceptably quick. KDE 3.5.10 on the same hardware (2 GB RAM, 2 GHz dual core processor, 7200 RPM sata drive) was sluggish enough to be annoying. > Well, if you find it unbearably slow, you must upgrade your hardware. > Surely 640k is more than enough for anyone! > Else, take the consequences like a man or switch back to the linux > console. > I cannot open the complex OOo documents that I need on the console. I'd love an ncurses interface to Zim, though, and I might write it when the Python port is done. I do occasionally browse the web in lynx, though! I really do not like the more modern console browsers. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org