[CS-FSLUG] WinXP "Myths"? Hmmmm...

[Fred A. Miller]

On Monday 22 August 2005 5:53 am, Don Parris wrote:
> Thought we might find this interesting.  It's not really news, but
> just general "stuff".  I haven't read it all, but the system
> requirements are supposedly much less than some seem to anticipate:
>
> http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/XPMyths.html

Having had to TRY to install XP w/SP2 on a LOT of very minimal systems, with 
the objective of having any semblance of practice performace for a moderately 
busy office, I can assure you that his "system requirements" are BOGUS at 
best!

Now, having said all that, SUSE, R.H., or any other distro. if installed with 
the latest KDE, OpenOffice, etc., ISN'T going to be a "hot" performer on that 
same box either. However, IF you set up the box properly using a journaling 
file system for all partitions, create at least a 1G swap partitian, tweeking 
all the "performace" settings (which you can't do in XP), once loaded it WILL 
out-perform XP hands down. 'NEVER had it fail. And, speaking of "fail," ALL 
boxen stayed up without failure with SUSE, and that NEVER was the case with 
XP.

So, IMHO, that site is a mixed bag - some accurate info. to make it look 
good. ;)

Fred

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