> Be careful (please, this is NOT the start of a flame war): on my 386DX40,
> 8mb RAM, X Window, linux was much more efficient than win95. On a friends
> Pentium 60, linux is terrible while win95 is usable
On a Pentium 60 Linux is terrible ? My Pentium old 66 runs it comparably ( or
better ) to windows . Is there a problem with the specific hardware ?
What makes the performance terrible ? what problems is he encountering ?
Your Squire
Squireson
> -> low end hardware
> yes, but say that in some hardware circumstances, linux is not the best
> thing.
>
> >
> >
> > I would highly suggest finding another computer, perhaps
> > in addition to the 486. Then you'll really be able to show
> > off the performance of multimedia on linux, and your older
> > machine can show that it is also usable on the low end.
>
> A thing which is always very interesting to show is an X Terminal,
> beleieve me. If you can have say 10 486 and 1 Pentium/AMD with 300Mhz and
> 64mb ram and let turn gimp or something like this on your pentium, believe
> me, that is really impressive.
>
> >
> > > On my system loading KDE brings down the performance.
> > Now I have switched to
> > > FVWM which is slightly lacking in aesthetics compared to
> > Win9x.
> >
> > I would strongly recommend BlackBox for a low-load wm that
> > still looks good. http://blackbox.wiw.org/
>
> Or windowmaker ;-)
>
> >
> > > My aim is to convert some of the Windows users to Linux.
> > I do not have much
> > > idea on multimedia support on Linux. Please help me:
> > > 1. Items that should be demonstrated
> > > 2. Good software to use for multimedia demo.
> >
> > GQmpeg is a really cool looking mp3 player (gnome frontend
> > to mpg123). Or xmms for a good winamp clone.
>
> X11Amp is nice too, show also how to record audio-cd's with cdparano, and
> encode it in mp3 with bladeenc. Be careful with the law, though
> >
> > GIMP is an excellent example of a high-quality open source
> > product.
> >
> > Remember, if you are doing this on your 486, any
> > multimedia displays are going to be pretty limited.
>
> Actually, we want to make a multimedia demo too. There is really on hot
> thing about linux: it's supports quite a lot of AWE32 sound cards in the
> same computer. I am not really aware of it since I am working on routing,
> but win95/98 is not able to do this (I might be wrong, please correc me)
>
> Gerd
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