On 8/18/07, William Chops Westfield <westfw@mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Aug 17, 2007, at 4:57 PM, Xiaofan Chen wrote:
>
> > X/KDE/Gnome/XFce and other *nix GUI got the maximum
> > bang of buck since they are free.
>
> Bang for buck has to include the hardware cost.  A free OS
> that requires 2G of ram and the lasted high-cost graphics
> card does NOT have good "bang per buck", for example (not
> that I know of a linux that does that badly, but the hardware
> targets under discussion here are also "free" to to being
> otherwise obsolete.
>

Hmm, X/Gnome/KDE does not need 2GB of Ram and a high-cost
card, only Vista Premimum need.

Actually X and some smaller GUI runs fine under those obsolete
hardware. Of course different people have different understanding
of obsolte hardware.

Regards,
Xiaofan
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