On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:09:49 -0600 "Selim T. Erdogan" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Joe, 13.11.2011: > > > > And I hate to invoke the Godwin's Law of Open Source, but my other > > workstation isn't up to running the fancy graphical bits of Windows > > 7, either, but Microsoft provide a perfectly good and > > fully-functional alternative, and don't warn me that it will only > > work for a while. > > (Warning: getting off topic) Indeed so, let's run away quickly after this. > > I am curious what you meant by the alternative. Is it Windows 7 with > some stuff turned off, or is it something else? (I am not familiar > with W7 but there are some old machines around with XP on them and > XP support will end in April 2014.) > > There is a substantial step up in resources required in going from XP to Win7 or its beta version, Vista. An absolute minimum of a G of RAM is necessary, and even bottom-end computers are normally sold with 2G. There is a free MS program somewhere that can determine whether an XP machine can usefully run Win7. Yes, the situation is a bit like Compiz, Windows will either offer the fancy 3D Aero features or not depending on a few things, mostly graphics power. The point is that the functional features of the DE don't depend on how fancy the graphics are, so everything else works the same either way, and the non-Aero version will not be withdrawn after a while. You don't get a bald statement that Win7 won't run, here's Windows 98 instead, but don't get used to it. I don't see why my old Gnome environment just disappeared down the plughole simply because my graphics driver or chipset doesn't do hardware 3D acceleration. -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
