Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3263 mails)

[James Hatridge <James.Hatridge@xxxxxx>]

HI Kanenas et al,
On Monday 17 December 2007 06:10, kanenas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> it used to be that open source software was a lean and mean fighting
> machine, now the typical linucs install is about 2-3x that of an xp
> partition, don't know anything about vista. and running the proggies often
> brings up situations like beagle or a software update, much better than
> 10.2 but still awful timewise, on dual core or even quad core cpus with
> oodles of ram!!!!! d.

This is really apples and oranges here. I have XP on a single XP, when I 
loaded it all there was only the very min desktop, nothing else. On the other 
hand SuSE 10.1 is on a DVD and I have 100's of programs that Windows does not 
even offer.

JIM

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