Many major companies are stating that WinXP will need 256MB of RAM to run well. It should be remembered that hardware manufacturers primarily design their products for Windos. Support for most hardware in GNU/Linux (including drivers) is more often than not the result of much perspiration on the part of open source reverse-engineers, who usually reveive _no_ help whatsoever from the manufacturers. On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 11:54:36 +0800, "Franki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So??? do you know how many drivers were missing from windows 2000 and ME > ??? I still have cards and stuff that don't have 2000 drivers here.... what > is your point (Also, windows 2000 needed a 300mhz cpu to run half decent.. > and XP neeeds more and at least 128mb ram as a bare minimium...??? (as > opposed to mandrake linux, which will run on a penntium 100 with 32 mb of > ram...(albiet slowly) > > The simple fact of the matter is that many people ARE using linux to replace > windows.... > > the "easy" side of things is most likely app software,, not the OS itself,, > windows can't take credit for the majority of their software either... > > rgds > > frank > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Manuel Drake > Sent: Wednesday, 26 September 2001 5:08 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] Nimda virus > > > > BTW, I did write to the author suggesting he may want to tell his > > readers that an alternative to Windows exists (Linux). He wrote back to > > say such an article is already in the works and may be out early next > > week. > > I'd love to agree with this assessment, but as I'm not exactly a moron, > and am *still* stuck in the mud getting my Mandrake 8.0 distribution to do > all that windows did for me (effortlessly). Please understand, I'd > *really* love to agree with this, but unfortunately, even mandrake is not > all that error free, ie, still not an alternative to windows. > > My latest lunacy, installed Mandrake 8 on a brandy new 1.2G Tbird system > for my neighbor, and though networking went ok, and I got X running > passably, come to find out that esd won't support his on-board audio, so > it's either another card, or back to RH7.1 which *did* for some reason > support his audio. > > One of these days though... > > For now, it would suffice to say that all the winservers should just give > up and shut down for linux replacement... and take our pain away as well > as their own. -- 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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