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MrX:
no-no .

you can easily customise your windows install.
itz called litePC http://www.litepc.com

i used the win98 thing, and it works great. goody goody

oh yeah-
Gentoo Linux=
poo linux.

its not possible for a nubie to install it, so dont even try it if you wanna do linux. i am going to try vector linux next.

Mr X

Bazoukas:
for
Mandrake
Lindows
Xandros

Xandros takes the fucking cake.

Calum:

--- Quote from: MrX ---no-no .

you can easily customise your windows install.
itz called litePC http://www.litepc.com

i used the win98 thing, and it works great. goody goody
--- End quote ---
hmm, you fail to convince me that litepc provides all the configurability that a linux system can provide. and i'm not even talking about being able to recompile your software with open source programs, i am simply talking about the common practice of readable config files. but i will let you discredit yourself with this stunning example of your obvious credentials to comment on the suitability of one piece of software over another:


--- Quote ---oh yeah-
Gentoo Linux=
poo linux.

--- End quote ---


:D :D :D :D :D

Aloone_Jonez:

--- Quote from: Calum ---can i just say something?:

CONFIGURABILITY!

there, i said it. how fast can you *make* windows boot up, and how fast can you *make* fedora boot up. sure, you might think fedora's default configuration sucks the brown goo from satan's scaly ringpiece, but with a linux distribution you can configure it a hell of a lot to work just how you like, in a lot of ways. by contrast windows has a huge wadge of deliberately unintelligible jibberish (known to many as the registry) instead of a human readable /etc directory, and consequently you can't do very much that you want to configure system level things with it.

hmm, fair enough, but then think about this, why doesn't windows eat RAM as efficiently as red hat in circumstances where more RAM is available? and why is it that i have often (in the past admittedly) heard that red hat can be made to run properly on low RAM systems, where windows simply will not run?

i'm not trying to insult you here, because i think user-friendliness is something that linux distros really lack compared with the expectations of windows users, however if you get past that, and imagine that a user can configure their linux system to their own preferences, you must see that if knoppix works well, fedora should be able to be made to work at least as well, on a specific machine.
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I suppose you would have to recompile the kernel, and WMD wasn't using the default configureation, Fedora has KDE or GNOME not XFCE as default. I'm running XP and the pager file is only
175MB. I would imagine with KDE instead of XFCE the  swap memory usage would be a lot higher. To be honest I would rather not bother, I would rather run Windows or if even better Vector Linux or knoppix if it would run my software.

WMD:

--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---you have 512MB and you're only running a few programs and it's using 438.375MB of swap space.
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It's Slackware, and I had War and Peace (yes, the whole thing) loaded into Abiword. :D

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