<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Kyle Spaans <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:3lucid@gmail.com">3lucid@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Chris Frey <<a href="mailto:cdfrey@foursquare.net">cdfrey@foursquare.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> Linux on a PII with 256megs of RAM just can't compete with Windows on<br>
> a P4 with a gig of RAM. Some may think that's an unreasonable expectation,<br>
> but I don't.<br>
<br>
</div>Neither do I. I think it can be done too. The only problem is that I<br>
imagine it would only work with Gentoo, a custom kernel, and a </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">_window manager_ rather than a desktop environment. Not the kind </blockquote>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">of thing a user can do in their first try, but maybe an
experienced enough friend.<br>
<br></blockquote></div><br>Agreed. We should not promote that anymore, with Desktop Environment<br>being what they are today. Gnome and KDE are out. Perhaps XUbuntu <br>would be usable, but still ...<br><br>The print server I use is a PII @ 333MHz with 384MB. It runs Kubuntu 8.04, <br>
and is fine as a print server (The KDE desktop has started but no one has logged<br>in nor started applications). When I use the GUI, e.g. to scan documents, it is<br>noticeably slow, though still usable.<br clear="all"><br>
The reason I keep it is that it does the job it is meant for, and is infrequently<br>used. It will be replaced when the last person at home without a laptop gets<br>one, and their desktop (Sempron with 512MB) will be the next print server.<br>
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