RE: [SLUG] Fwd: Where do you want to go today.

[Rick Welykochy <rick@nospam.praxis.com.au>]

On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Aravind Naidu wrote:

> But, I generally agree with the principle of advocacy. Instead of trying to
> bash the other 'guy', it is way better to concentrate on the good points and
> promote Linux on its positives of which there are many. I think more and
> more people see Linux in its own strengths and less and less you need to
> compare feature for feature with other OS's.

Well, there are a fwew ironically named "advocacy" new groups
that thoroughly bag their intended subject, i.e. windows.advocacy ;-)

 
> The problem is also that many stories are anectodal and it is difficult to
> pass them around.

Oh, it is quite easy to pass them around. Getting them verified - now
that is the tough part.

Aravind: regarding Windows 2000, what is your estimate of a reasonable
amount of the following resources to run Word/Excel (i.e. Office)
plus email and a web browser and suffer no delays, disk (VM) thrashing, etc:

(*) RAM?
(*) CPU?
(*) Hard drive

I'd like to compare this to a Linux box I have that does similar "or better" (TM) on:

(*) 64 MB RAM
(*) P100
(*) 2 GB HDD

which runs a little 'sluggishly' if StarOffice is loaded,
but otherwise, screams along and also runs Apache + SSL, MySQL,
a number of other services, and heaps of perl scripts for lots
of different duties. Oh, and setiathome on top of it all :)


Thanks,
Rick W
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