On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 16:46 +1100, Sam Watkins wrote: > On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 08:33:50PM -0500, Curt Howland wrote: > > I view/listen all kinds of multimedia, but don't expect to get > > entirely away from the megahertz requirements. While Linux is much > > more resource friendly than Windows, movies still require at least > > 800MHz to be viewable while doing anything else at the same time. > > It depends what type of movies. Normal not-too-big mpeg movies work > fine on a 200Mhz pentium mmx. mpeg4 / divx / dvd movies may require a > faster machine. > > > There is no functionality of Windows that is not equaled or bettered > > in Debian Linux. > > The only important thing Windows does better than Debian is implementing > the win32 platform. Unfortunately there is some good software that some > people find necessary that runs on Windows and won't run under wine. I > imagine business people with custom applications may find this a > compelling reason to stay with windows. > > The are plenty of things that windows apparently does better than > Debian. But in my opinion there are vastly, overwhelmingly more things > that Debian does better than windows (the things that I think matter). This, I think we can agree on. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. Legality/morality of using open wireless points: "If I leave my door unlocked are you going to come into my house in the middle of the night because you need to use the restroom? I pay a fixed rate for water. It's cold water so there is no electricity usage. No financial loss. I have 2.5 bathrooms, so no loss of usage on my end. Is this OK? Please, try this and we'll see if it's OK." http://www.warchalking.org/comments/2002/9/22/223831/236/135
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