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MS Anti-Spyware: Norton Antivirus is a trojan!
Pathos:
I reckon file browsers should automatically show a description of directories. it would INSTANTLY make it easier.
/bin - basic programs
/etc - system settings
/dev - hardware devices
/home - !!!!personal documents!!!!
/sbin - administrative programs
/usr - secondary
...
_kill__bill:
Microsoft Anti-Spyware is an oxymoron.
Aloone_Jonez:
--- Quote from: worker201 --- And the marginal cost of buying a P3 with 256MB RAM is more than the marginal benefit of increased performance. Relatively low income households, is what I am talking about here.
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I've done a lot of research in this area and a modern Linux distro running KDE uses a similar amount of resources as XP.
I don't worry too much about the hardware requirements of Windows as anti-virus uses up far more memory therefore it's the biggest resource hog. Windows XP only uses between 64MB and 98MB of RAM depending on which services are enabled while a typical memory resident virus scanner and good quality firewall uses between 200MB to 300MB. This isinsane considering the supposed hardware requirements for anti-virus software are minimal.
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---I've done a lot of research in this area and a modern Linux distro running KDE uses a similar amount of resources as XP.
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They might use a similar amount of RAM but Linux has much better memory management I think. Also, KDE has features that Windows XP lacks.
Aloone_Jonez:
--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---They might use a similar amount of RAM but Linux has much better memory management I think.
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To be honest I haven't seen any objective evidence to support this. I've also been doing some research into the NT kernel recently and I've discovered that it kicks arse in so many ways, (Dave Cutler is a fucking genius). I don't think the kernel (hence the memory management) is the bad part of Windows, it's the shit that surrounds is that causes most of the problems and anti-virus is probably top of the list, well second to the malware it so pathetically tries to protect you against.
--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---Also, KDE has features that Windows XP lacks.
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That's true the Windows Desktop is shit, I actually prefer Xfce - it's an excellent compromise between resourse usage and features.
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