----- Original Message ----- From: Jerry <dovecot.u...@seibercom.net> Date: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 11:03 am Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Linux should be as easy as Windows To: dovecot@dovecot.org
> On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:07:27 -0400 > Dennis Clarke <dcla...@blastwave.org> articulated: > > > Sometimes things are not and that is okay. GNOME is not XFCE or > > Fluxbox but we have freedom to choose either. Perhaps by "light" you > > mean you don't need 32G of memory and a dual socket 12-core Opteron > > 6100 series machine with some hot NVidia graphics card and 10Gb > > ethernet to just *barely* install Windows 8. :-) > > I just installed Win7 on a 7 year old Dell 4550 with only 1G of RAM. I have a new shiney multicore 64-bit machine with an NVidia graphics card etc etc and Win 7 seems to work "okay" with 4G of memory. Performance still sucks compared to Solaris or Debian on the same box but it plays movies well. I installed Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit which I bought as a non-upgrade box kit. $$$$ > Obviously, since I do not have the latest video cards, etc. installed > in the PC, certain functions were disabled by default; however, it > definitely works. I only did the installation to see if it would really > work, and was pleasantly surprised to see how well it performed. That > was, of course, on a virgin system (all data erased from drives and > reformatted). I'll try a old 32-bit box with baseline hardware sometime just to see ... it could be a waste of my time however. > > By the way, Win8 is not even scheduled to be released until at least > July 1, 2010 and even that is not written in stone. I as joking. :-) Dennis