On Aug 17, 2007, at 7:03 PM, William Chops Westfield 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.

There are plenty of Linux distros, BSD flavors, and other OS's that  
will run just fine on old hardware.

http://www.distrowatch.com - Start digging.

Just don't expect miracles.  Major distros aren't targeted at such  
hardware, just like Vista isn't.

The machines are as slow as they were back when you used Windows 3.11  
and DOS on them.  Sheesh.

--
Nate Duehr
nate@natetech.com



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