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Longhorn?
WMD:
I've heard an MS developer quoted as saying, "Longhorn will run fine on a 1GHz computer with 256MB RAM." I'm guessing that's with the stuff turned off.
Aloone_Jonez:
Perhapps they've done their market reasearch properly this time. I bet the visit Linux forums and places like this and see what people bitch about most and try to improve it.
They've looked at the normal mimimum requirements for an average graphical Linux distro and monitored the resource usage and adjusted their new operating system to do as best as they can to match it. Don't for get Microsoft are very interested in Linux and the want to and probaly do understand it inside out.
Jenda:
Of course they do - they have a whole department for it. LongBorn will be BIG, as we all heard here before...
WMD:
--- Quote ---They've looked at the normal mimimum requirements for an average graphical Linux distro and monitored the resource usage and adjusted their new operating system to do as best as they can to match it.
--- End quote ---
You don't need 1GHz and 256MB RAM to run Linux. Really. I ran Ubuntu at school on some 400MHz/128MB machines, and it was fine. The same for SuSE 9.2 on an XP 2000+ with 128MB (the CPU is much, but that RAM amount sticks out a lot).
RaZoR1394:
Gentoo can run with as low as P1's without any big problems. Just throw fluxbox on it and you're go. Installation compilation shouldn't be a problem as the Jackass project provides a pre compiled high optimized tar ball, which could save you days or weeks of installation on such a machine.
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