OT: New low for Microsoft!

Guy Fraser guy at incentre.net
Mon May 10 16:08:52 UTC 2004


Hugh Foster wrote:

> >> One of Linux's problems is that it is so damn frugal.  How does that
> help sell hardware?  Thank goodness for Gnome, Mozilla, and Open 
> Office, without them there would be no hope to get manufacturers on 
> our side! <<
>
> Less so these days! Having played with FC2 T3 (yes I know this is the 
> wrong list to talk about it but I'm referring to a trend here), on a 
> P3 of respectable power and watched it /crawl/, the days of "slim Lin 
> runs on owt" appear to be over, unfortunately.
>
I put it on a P4 1.5 with 1G of PC-133{slow} Ram and a 20GB ATA66 Drive, and it worked great. Even supported 3D on my ATI AIW8500, and my intel sound {After I opened the mixer and turned up all the volume levels}.






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