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I'd just like to point out that Mandrake is just as bloated as Windows. Thank you
And just how do you figure that? Last November, I installed Mandrake on an old Dell OptiPlex GSa (Pentium II (232MHz), 32MB of RAM, 2.0GB on the HD). It worked just great even though Mandrake recommends a minimum of 64MB of RAM, and with the old sound and video cards as well. The one and
only thing that didn't work was the Lucent Technologies WinModem. OTOH, I couldn't install Win XP on that rig even if I had wanted to: not enough memory, not enough HD, not enough processor power. That's rediculous! Furthermore, on my new rig, Mandrake doesn't take up any more room on the HD than Win 95, even though I installed
shit-loads of software since Mandrake is the system's main OS, hosting the boot-loader, the web browsers and E-mail clients, and the development tools (FOX, KDevelop, Qt, Python, Perl, and Ruby). And still it isn't anywhere as large as a clean Win XP install would be.
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[ April 01, 2002: Message edited by: jtpenrod ]
[ April 01, 2002: Message edited by: jtpenrod ]