Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 18th Jul 2006 22:31 UTC, submitted by Tom Magnum
The Mono debate over on the GNOME desktop developer mailing list is heating up again. Philip Van Hoof makes a compelling argument about the need for GNOME decision makers to take into consideration future developers and the over-reliance of C and GObject in GNOME. At what point does a general-purpose, high level framework and runtime become a necessity for GNOME?
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The weak point is the amount of ram. I'm fairly sure that Win2k with an uptodate internet explorer or firefox won't be very comfortable on 64mb ram either. If you want to run a desktop on that machine, then add a stick of 128mb ram. It'll run win2k decently and it'll run debian stable decently too. (xfce probably, even though I think that Gnome/KDE would be decent too on a total of 192mb ram)
Since you consider win2k, you could also consider an older version of a linux distro, like Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (a.k.a. woody), which was released on 19th of July, 2002. (thus more recent than the initial release of win2k) Debian gave security updates for Debian 3.0 till the end of june 2006. I think I read security updates for Win2k will be stopped at the end of july 2006. So, I think you didn't really look very good then in the past two years. (Debian 3.1 was only released on April 19th, 2006) If I'm not mistaken Debian 3.0 still used xfree 3.3.6 and had mainly gtk-1 applications. If you use that in combination with Windowmaker or xfce3, you would have had a very snappy desktop on that Pentium II 400Mhz with 64mb ram. I know because I ran it on a Pentium 120Mhz with 64mb ram.....
I think that "Linux runs good on old hardware" should be interpreted as "if you want to put some effort in it, you can configure a linux system to run well on older hardware". If you choose the right software, you can run an up-to-date kernel and up-to-date software on an old pentium with reasonable performance. Of course, one cannot expect miracles. If your hardware simply does not have the power to play an H.264 encoded high definition movie trailer, then it's not gonna miraculously work when you try it with linux.