[CS-FSLUG] As if that many really care, but here it is anyway.

[Fred A. Miller]

On Friday 22 July 2005 6:40 pm, David Aikema wrote:
> On 7/22/05, "�� Wei-Yee Chan (Made in Chinar)" <survivor at brisnet.org> wrote:
> > Windoze OSes -  They all be the same.  It doesn't matter what they call
> > it.
>
> There was a big difference between their Win9x series an WinXP
> (although you could just view WinXP as a continuation of the business
> line).  That said, I'm not quite sure if there will be anything much
> worth an upgrade in this case.
>
> On 7/22/05, Fred A. Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:
> > That was pretty much my point. Wait till MicroSofties find out how much
> > 'Puter it's going to take to run that over-bloated monolith!!
>
> Last I checked, the most common Linux desktop environments (KDE,
> Gnome) were also quite processor-heavy.  If there's enough benefit to
> justify more processor usage, then why not... (not to say that you
> shouldn't optimize).

XP requires much more hardware than SUSE with KDE, yet XP isn't anywhere near 
as capable an OS and is much larger than Linux. I don't expect that to change 
with any new OS from MickySoft.

Fred

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