[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux counter to Vista

[Fred James]

Dennis Myhand wrote:

>Fred wrote:
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>>I just finished an evaluation of Beryl, Emerald and XGL on my Suse 10.2 system
>>and I have to say that Vista has nothing special in comparison. What a desktop 
>>enhancement!
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>>Now, having said that, I have to report that I removed it all from the computer
>>because of the extra overhead that it requires and because I personally do
>>not need or want many of the bells and whistles that are provided. So, to
>>summarize, it is really nice eye candy but it made my system slow down
>>because I don't have gobs of memory.
>>
>>Fred
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>Hi Fred:
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>When the second RC of Vista came out I ran it on my 64bit Athlon 3000+ 
>with one gig of RAM.  It was painfully slow.  After reading Slashdot 
>last week I found that I was short three gigs of RAM for Optimal 
>Operation.  I have heard that Vista was supposed to have all the 
>necessary enhancements that OS X has encouraged in operating systems, 
>but I don't see it.  OS X is so very far ahead of Vista that MS will 
>never catch up without buying Apple and putting their logo on the 
>package.  And yet, for almost all of what I need to do, with the 
>exception of a couple of games, I use Debian, and need nothing more.
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A friend off line suggested that the memory is needed "to enable all of 
the DRM protection stuff to run unfettered"
Regards
Fred James
(what Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away - and then some)