On Dec 26, 10:07 am, Tony Manco <trmanco-use...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> A great OS!
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> | New Linux user here. I was given two old Compaq desktops to play
> | around with. Both had Windows ME. I cannibalized both machines to
> | end up with one machine with the following:
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> | 16Gig HD 850 MHz Intel PIII Processor 192 MB Ram
> |
> | I added a Linksys NIC to get online. Wiped the HD with DBAN, and
> | installed PCLinuxOS 2007. I can't tell you how impressed I am with
> | it! Talk about breathing new life into a machine that was headed for
> | the trash! My other daily use laptop is a Vista (ugh) machine with
> | an AMD X2 2.0GHz dual core and 2 Gigs of RAM . That antique desktop
I've heard Vista described as DRM disguised as an operating system. I
don't know if that explains all of the resource requirements of Vista,
but it explains some. A nice thing about Linux is that it is DRM-
free.
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