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Has microsoft done anything good for the computer industry?
dmcfarland:
Sounds good to me. Im almost tempted to learn programming so I can help some of these "not for primetime" OS's become prime time.
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worker201:
--- Quote from: dmcfarland ---Sounds good to me. Im almost tempted to learn programming so I can help some of these "not for primetime" OS's become prime time.
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Actually, all though they don't require you to sign anything, to make Linux better is your responsibility as a user. If you don't know any programming, get on it. Give back to the community what they have given to you.
Aloone_Jonez:
Right, time for some screenshots.
Here's the task manger when nothing's running.
Memory usage: 80996KB (79.1MB)
And here it is under my favourate minimalistic configuration without explorer (the Windows desktop) running.
Memory usage: 70156KB (68.51MB)
MarathoN:
That's mine when I've just started up.
I run Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4 and nothing is 'tweaked'.
And that's my system when it's idle.
jtpenrod:
Has Microsoft done anything good for the computer industry? Why, yes, it has: you have companies like Symantec and McAfee which employ lots of folks whose only reason for existing is to create products that overcome all the many shortcomings of the Windows OS. :D
"You can run linux on a fucking P-200 with 32 mb's of ram. [...] But can it run gnome and openoffice?"
I have an old Dell Dimension from 1996: 113MHz P-I, 64MB RAM, 2.0GB HD, 1.5GB HD, 2.0MB RAM Vid card. This is running Slackware 9.0 with KDE 3.0. Runs just fine, and the only time that the lack of memory and the slowness of that P-I become apparant is during compiles of apps. This system originally came with Win 95 as an OEM install. With Linux, it's still quite useful. :cool:
Could you run XP on that? :rolleyes:
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