Well, for me Linux still is a secondary OS. I'm now going to start doing
office jobs in StarOffice, but as long as I can't get modem to work, I can't
do Internet stuff.
Also, I have been writing apps for VisualBasic, and continue to do that in
Win. But, I spend an even increasing amount of time in Linux. I'm proud with
my OS knowledge:
I have perfect knowledge of Windows 3.0, 3.1 and especially 3.11, as well as
Windows 95 and 98. I know NT series (especially W2K Server), even though I
really hate W2K. I know the very basics of BeOS - at least I can install it,
install apps under it, and do some little job. I'm familiar with the Solaris
OS, and am now gaining knowledge of Linux. When I get to interm. user level,
I'll use my programming knowledge to recompile the source to suit my needs.
Solver
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Sridhar Dhanapalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Adams, Jamie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Linux List'"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 7:13 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Wow
> I'm also the kind of person that likes to beat the hell out of a machine!
One reason why I
> had to get away from Windows. IT couldn't keep up. If a machine can't
handle 8 different
> programs running, it can't keep up with my usual 15-18 *term's running
that I do work on,
> playing small games, email, Mozilla and Netscape running plus w3m. I
don't use KMail and I
> do a lot of things via console, but I run tons of apps on a regular basis.
>
> I can't stand GNOME, and I KDE uses up too many valuable processes I could
be using on
> something else! :0) So I use Enlightenment with a rather small theme.
That way I can have
> 36 "desktops" to do the billions of things I like to do.
>
> I'm running on a Duron 850, which is going to be upgraded to a T-Bird 1.2
to use the 266
> FSB on my Motherboard. I have 256 MG RAM, and 50 GB of disk space in that
machine I
> believe. A 20 GB and a 30 GB.
>
> But my previous P2 400 w/ 256 MG RAM took the load pretty well. Not as
well as this
> machine, but it took the beating. My only problems were in KDE and having
KDE apps die on
> me.
>
> tdh
>
>
>
> T. Holmes
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>
>
> | I guess it really depends on what you do with your system. I like to
> | push mine right to its limits, running stuff like Windows in VMware
> | (which is reasonably usable) and having several different web browsers
> | open on a GNOME desktop. I've noticed that KDE and especially IceWM
> | are faster than GNOME, but I find that GNOME suits my needs better
> | (nothing can compare to Sawfish and the GNOME Panel :-)
> |
> |
> | On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 18:26, Adams, Jamie wrote:
> | > I dont know why you lot should be chuggin'. Im using a Toshiba
> | > Satellite 2520CDT (AMD K62-300) with 64mb ram and a 4.1gig HDD,
> | > everything runs perfectly on mine, much faster than 98 did! no
> | > complaints here.. --
> | > Jamie Adams
> | > Housing Assistant
> | >
> | > 41 Castle Road
> | > SCARBOROUGH
> | > North Yorkshire, YO11 1BJ
> | >
> | > Tel: (01723) 507543
> | > Fax: (01723) 355862
> | >
> | > >----------
> | >
> | > From: Sridhar Dhanapalan[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> | >
> | > >Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> | > >Sent: 15 June 2001 07:33
> | > >To: Jay needs a Guinness; Linux List
> | > >Subject: Re: [newbie] Wow
> | > >
> | > >On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 14:58, Jay needs a Guinness wrote:
> | > >> You are chuggin'?!!??!! I still have a Compaq 2266 with a Cyrix
> | > >> 225MHz. Thank God I installed more RAM and a new hard drive. Me
> | > >> PC is horribly obselete. But, not to disappoint you all, the new
> | > >> computer I buy will be the new Dual Proc Mac with OS X. I refuse
> | > >> to buy Windoze ever again, and I miss Macs.
> | > >
> | > >If I didn't have 256MB of RAM and a 12GB hard drive (which was
> | > >absolutely massive when I bought it in 1998), I would've gone nuts
> | > > a long time ago. My computer may be a bit on the slow side, but
> | > > it's *just* (only just) fast enough to run GNOME with apps like
> | > > Konqueror with anti-aliased fonts.
> | > >
> | > >I hope you don't plan on abandoning GNU/Linux entirely. Remember,
> | > >Mandrake have a PPC Mac version in the works -- it's currently at
> | > > the beta 1 stage, so it should be out quite soon. It even has a
> | > > nifty app (Mac on Linux) that'll allow you to run Mac apps in
> | > > Linux! If you're interested, there's a good FAQ list for Mac on
> | > > Linux at
> | > >http://www.ibrium.se/linux/overview.html.
> |
> | --
> | Sridhar Dhanapalan.
> | "There are two major products that come from Berkeley:
> | LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
> | -- Jeremy S. Anderson
> |
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