8 May
2000
8 May
'00
5:17 a.m.
If Caldera 2.3
isn't faster than W95 it's got to be misconfigured.
Boy, it's a lot faster than W98 on the same hardware at work and
much more reliable.
Used the standard images and ran it on 486dx66 with 20m ram. No faster
than W95 (tuned) and about the same as WinNT4.0/workstation. The Xserver
is the limiter as it's served not native graphics on the 486 it's
noticeable. It seemed robust enough but faster... not really.
I also don't care that the kernel fit on a 1.44mb disk (useful for LRP
maybe) as the useful config has to have a lot more around it for a user
workstation. When you reach that point it's big, like needing a 1gb disk
big.
I've had linux working pretty well on an old 340mb IDE -- but that's
pretty much my personal minimum these days. I can still get almost
everything in an 850.
I slipped a minimum development Linux/X11 in about 540mb. This included the
development tools and libraries and some X for browsing and stuff.
Amazing how large some of the Emacs stuff is 8-)...
I'm a vi type these days (I'd prefer EDT or WordStar).
the update from 2.3 wasn't on the website at
a discount yet) looks
pretty quick... I do think Mandrake 7.0 seems to have just about every
option and tool out for Linux on one CD.
Therein lies the probelm with linux:
Slackware, mandrake, redhat, cladara and howmany more all different?
Reminds me of CPM2.2, all teh same cpm but modem programs were not always
portable and media was often different. Same but, not really.
Allison
Yup... of course the IOBYTE version of Kermit worked with the VT180
in S-L-O-W fashion... the customized non-generic version was much nicer.
Bill