You may want to compare apples and apples here. You are comparing win3.1 to
the Linux 2.2 kernel. You should compare win3.1 to Linux 1.0.18 kernel
since they are contemporaties. Or, compare the 2.2 kernel to Win98 or NT.
I used X with 8 MB on a 486 about the same time I was using win3.1, and
found Linux and X to be quite alot faster than win3.1. In those days there
was little in the form of office apps that you could run on Linux, but the
windows manager (fvwm) was very lean, and required a fraction of the
overhead that win3.1 requires.
Now fast forward to win98 and NT, and Linux 2.2.x kernel. Yes gnome and
KDE are as big as Win98 and NT, but if you want lean, you can still run
fvwm. There is no lean option for win98 or NT. Yes fvwm or twm doesn't
offer drag and drop and many other GUI features that everyone expects from
a basic OS nowadays, but if you want all those features you had better plan
on upgrading your hardware, or spend the day listening to disk thrashing.
What makes Linux great is that you have options. You wnat drag and drop, et
al. install KDE or Gnome. If you want lean install fvmw. If you want a
server, all of the tools are there. Just load the modules you need to do
what you want.
Try customizing windows to work the way you think. You can't do it. But
UNIX/Linux gives you all of the tools you need to automate every aspect of
your computing, and with tcl/tk, perl, etc. you can develope very nice
GUI apps. Nowadays there are a lot of GUI apps that you can download that
work as well as word 2 and excel for day to day tasks, yet are much leaner
than word or excel ever were (and they don't need Gnome or KDE to run, run
them in whatever window manager you like).
Cristian Carnutu wrote:
> Hi,
> The subject was Seagate HDD.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote[in part]:
> > I wouldn't even try a RH install with 4mb.
> > with 8b I would still expect lots of trouble.
>
> Well, here is a problem.
> If so, where is the so much claimed Linux superiority?
>
> On a 386 with 4mb I run Win3.11 with Word 6 and Exell 5, Adobe photoshop
> 2.0 ,and it worked fine (slow, of course, but it worked).
>
> Can I run X and X-applications on 386 with 4mb? Of course,not.
>
> What stays? Linux is better because is quite gratis. Nothing else.
>
> I understand you can make the best server using Linux. But you can not
> call something "Operating System " only for this reason.
> When you try to do something for the mass-use you are going in the same
> direction as Microsoft: see KDE and Gnome.As a gratis product Linux has
> no resposability for the client, and this is the only reason Linux has
> not (yet) the problem of the compatibility with the past (which makes so
> much trobule at Microsoft).
>
> Regards,
>
> Cristian
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