Linked by Joshua Boyles on Wed 19th May 2004 20:08 UTC
By the time Longhorn comes out I'm sure everyone will be sick of the subject "windows vs linux." Will longhorn finally destroy that pesky linux and mark another decade of Microsoft's monopoly, or will the underdog come out with a stunning upset and send a multi billion dollar company to it's grave?
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The author is right that Linux will run more than acceptably on older hardware. I am running Mandrake Linux 9.1 on a Compaq Presario 1255 laptop. It has an AMD K6-2 333MHz processor and (I think) 32 Meg of RAM. It installed flawlessly and recognized all the laptop's hardware. It is slow starting up, but once booted, the speed is more than adequate.
The author is right that Linux will run more than acceptably on older hardware. I am running Mandrake Linux 9.1 on a Compaq Presario 1255 laptop. It has an AMD K6-2 333MHz processor and (I think) 32 Meg of RAM. It installed flawlessly and recognized all the laptop's hardware. It is slow starting up, but once booted, the speed is more than adequate.