Re: [SLUG] Lindows Update

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Wed Mar 05 2003 - 18:16:47 EST


On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 01:49:21AM -0500, steve wrote:

> On Thursday 27 February 2003 21:51, Paul M Foster wrote:
> > I wrote a while back that I had bought a Lindows machine, and
> > never really let everyone know how I'd solved the "problems" with
> > it. So here goes.
> >
> snip
> >
> > Paul M. Foster
>
> That's a good review and I liked the fixes.
>
> My difficulty with such "below grade" boxes is that you will outgrow
> them sooo fast.

I kinda doubt it. The machine it replaced was a 133MHz Pentium I with
128M of memory, and I had that one for years. This thing screams by
comparison. Moreover, I only run X so I can surf when needed. Otherwise,
I'm in console mode, and most apps don't hog resources that bad in the
console.

Paul



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