Two ways Microsoft sabotages Linux desktop adoption

[Mike McCarty]

Joel Rees wrote:
>>>#4 My comment about WinXP running like a dog was predicated on Windows
>>>98 era systems...i.e. =< 128Mb RAM, =< 600Mhz Pentium III and evidently
>>
>>Umm, I have a Pentium 90HMz 32MB machine which runs Win98 like a champ,
>>but just barely chugs with Linux. I haven't loaded WinXP on that
>>machine. Linux takes about 30 minutes to boot (Knoppix). I'm not sure
>>XP would fit.
> 
> 
> XP would die.

Very possibly. Knoppix has died a few times on that box while trying
to boot.

> Suggest netBSD for that ancient box, if you are interested in really

I've got an old copy of FreeBSD, but it does what I need already. Why
change it?

> using it. (Unless, of course you have an aging aunt using the box with
> dialup and only seeing the web through a non-MSIE browser that does not
> do javascript or active-xxx.)

My mother uses it for running games like solitaire, hangman, etc.
We also have some spreadsheets on it which get updated a few times
a year, and printed. It has no connections to a network, nor to the web.
All file transfers take place via floppy disc, so the spreadsheets
can be printed. Information only goes into that box via keyboard
and mouse, and comes out only via display and floppy disc.

Mike
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