[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux counter to Vista
Fred James
fredjame at fredjame.cnc.net
Mon Feb 26 14:28:46 CST 2007
Dennis Myhand wrote:
>Fred wrote:
>
>
>>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!
>>
>>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
>>
>>
>>
>Hi Fred:
>
>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.
>
>
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)
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