Two ways Microsoft sabotages Linux desktop adoption

[Joel Rees]

2006-02-14 (火) の 23:07 -0600 に Mike McCarty さんは書きました:
> Joel Rees wrote:
> >>>#4 My comment about WinXP running like a dog was predicated on Windows
> >>>98 era systems...i.e. =< 128Mb RAM, =< 600Mhz Pentium III and evidently
> >>
> >>Umm, I have a Pentium 90HMz 32MB machine which runs Win98 like a champ,
> >>but just barely chugs with Linux. I haven't loaded WinXP on that
> >>machine. Linux takes about 30 minutes to boot (Knoppix). I'm not sure
> >>XP would fit.
> > 
> > 
> > XP would die.
> 
> Very possibly. Knoppix has died a few times on that box while trying
> to boot.
> 
> > Suggest netBSD for that ancient box, if you are interested in really
> 
> I've got an old copy of FreeBSD, but it does what I need already. Why
> change it?
> 
> > using it. (Unless, of course you have an aging aunt using the box with
> > dialup and only seeing the web through a non-MSIE browser that does not
> > do javascript or active-xxx.)
> 
> My mother uses it for running games like solitaire, hangman, etc.
> We also have some spreadsheets on it which get updated a few times
> a year, and printed.

Then MSW98 is probably what the box should run, just like the two old
68K era Macs I have are better used for running Mac OS 7 than for, say,
netBSD. I would love to have the time to get them running netBSD or a
stripped-down debian, load a light-weight window manager on them, etc.
But I would not likely get more use from them that way than I do now.

>  It has no connections to a network, nor to the web.
> All file transfers take place via floppy disc, so the spreadsheets
> can be printed. Information only goes into that box via keyboard
> and mouse, and comes out only via display and floppy disc.

Yeah, some people say a computer that isn't hooked to another computer
isn't a computer these days, but there is still plenty a stand-alone
computer can do.

(Must be the moon, 'cause I can't concentrate on work either.)