On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 11:43:30PM -0400, David Ecklein wrote: > Derek- > > I would not be particularly interested in running Linspire on high end > systems, but there may be some who are. You are among that group, perhaps, > and the Lynch review methodology may be appropriate. But if you have a > high-end system, you might aspire beyond Linspire, don't you think?
In case this hasn't been made perfectly clear, I think the question you're asking is a reasonable and interesting one... All I'm saying is it's equally reasonable that a review wouldn't try to answer it. I think I can also take an educated guess and answer your question. Linspire 5.0 is a desktop-oriented distribution, and as such it would perform lousy on old hardware. GNOME needs lots of memeory, and a 200MHz Pentium system just won't have enough. You won't have enough CPU power to say, listen to MP3s in the background while you are running much of anything else. You might be able to tweak it to run OK for just e-mail and web, by running a basic window manager like xfce or fvwm (the latter of which which you'll almost certainly need to download and install yourself), but it's not intended to be run on such configurations, and required tweaking totally misses the point of Linspire, which is ease of use. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail. Sorry for the inconvenience. Thank the spammers.
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