Linked by Joshua Boyles on Wed 19th May 2004 20:08 UTC
Talk, Rumors, X Versus Y 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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RE: Peragrin
by Thom Holwerda on Wed 19th May 2004 20:50 UTC

As for running win2003 or winXP which is it? They are two seperate products. Also Linux allows(most of the time) to leave the eye candy turned on, something you probally don't have running. Win XP will run on that if you turn off just about all the toys that make it XP.

Uhm-- no you are wrong there. I always install WindowBlinds or StyleXP. Still, XP/Server 2003 run mighty fine on the 400 MHz Pentium. Try to be more informed next time; it's mostly RAM that matters, not the processor speed. Antoher example: My parents' 500 MHz AMD K6 runs XP Pro just fine, it's mainly Office 2003 (they don't do much more than Outlook/Word/IE) slowing this machine down. And yes, this machine runs WindowBlinds as well (I didn't want my parents to experience Luna ;) )

And my next test will come after I upgrade my notebook's memory; right now it's a 366 MHz Pentium 2 with only 64 MBRAM, running NT4.0, but I want more ;)