Can Linux beat XP in homes yet or NOT?

[Tim]

On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 02:15 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> I'd give Centos 3.x a try on old machines.  It has the 2.4 kernel and
> is still supported with security/bugfix updates and administration is
> very similar to fedora.  And on a server, old versions are fine. 

I'm curious why you'd say as old as 3?  Are the releases, since then,
that much more demanding of resources?

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 important to the thread.)

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