Re: Kubuntu: Any faster than Windows 2000?

Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2006-03-22, Captain Dondo <yan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I recently rolled my own on a 100 MHz laptop w/ 32 MB RAM; it
ran painfully slowly but it ran. busybox for a shell, some
basic utils, nano-X for windowing... But of course I wasn't
trying to run any X apps.

Geeze.

And I remember X11 running quite happily on a 25MHz 486 with
8MB of RAM, and on a 20MHz 68K with 4MB of RAM. And that was
back when I used emacs.

My first ever X server I installed was on a 386 with I think 512K ram...interactive unix that was..

We used to use 386SX servers with about 64K ram as linux print servers...no XC of course. You don't need X for anything except user interface bollocks. All configs done with Vi..into the config files..

(Emacs is a disaster: I spent hours after our so called 'Unix system administrator' edited all the congifgs with Emacs. Loads of extraneous pagination characters that ruined the /etc/passwd file)
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