Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 04:31:17AM EDT, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> >> I don't know about their more recent consumer-grade offering but
> >> you may want to take a look at Windows '98. When I got the laptop,
> >> it came with a 20-page or so manual. But then considering the
> >> "capabilities" of the OS that was probably overkill anyway.
> > That wrongly assumes anything Windows is a modern OS, when in
> > reality it's just a rehash of the worst ideas CP/M and VMS had to
> > offer.
> Because MS-bashing on a Debian-centric list does wonder for promoting
> the usage of FOSS software, right?
I'm not promoting anything.
A bit of anti-M$ trolling is always fun and could get the party going.
:-)
> Maybe you forgot how great of an OS Win98 was at the time. That was a
> different world than today, and even now seeing how responsive Win98
> is on old hardware (it flies on 64 MiB RAM)
On a 650Mhz with 384 MiB RAM laptop, Windows 98 was NOT "flying" by any
stretch of the imagination.. it was.. hmm.. tolerably sluggish. Unless
you went crazy & started opening windows by the handful, of course.
If you did, MTBF was about two hours.
> it makes me wonder why Debian is sometimes sluggish on 512 MiB
> machines with >1 GHz procesors.
Stop wondering and start thinking.
:-)
You must be using one of the M$ Windows clones as your "desktop".
Well, if you find it unbearably slow, you must upgrade your hardware.
Else, take the consequences like a man or switch back to the linux
console.
CJ
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