Charles,<div><br></div><div>Not trying to pass false info or bash MS as I've been a user for a long time (still use XP almost every day). I recall reading the 768MB RAM bit as it was getting released.</div><div>I had friends wanting me to deploy Vista for them for the cool factor & did so (or tried). None of them were happy w/performance out of the box. I tried the same thing w/mine & having 1GB of RAM at that time, I had the same (disgustingly latent) outcome.</div>
<div><br></div><div>What I'm getting at is that it's not false info if it's my experience w/the OS on varying hardware architectures. I trust your knowledge & experience, Charles but I've never seen it done. If you have any links on how-to's for performance tuning, etc., that'd be an interesting read for me.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Also, that's a great idea for David to bring the rig to the meeting. :)</div><div><br></div><div>--miguel</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Charles Wyble <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:charles@thewybles.com">charles@thewybles.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Ya, it wouldn't run at ALL. Vista requires 768MB RAM just to boot up (iirc). <br>
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It does not. I wish people would stop spreading false information. I use Windows/Linux/Mac on a daily basis. They all have there strengths and weaknesses. I begrudge no one there choice of operating system. However I do ask that people stop spreading false information. I have a vista virtual machine with 256 megs of ram, and have run it with as low as 128. Vista automatically turned off the fancy features on less resources. Too bad Ubuntu doesn't do that.<br>
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XP "only" requires 256MB.<br>
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XP can run in as little as 64 megs of ram out of the box. With tweaking I have run it in 32 megs of ram in a VM.<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
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Hell, I tried installing Ubuntu Hardy on an 800MHz laptop & it was a slide show.<br>
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Slide show?<br>
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I agree, though, David. It would be super duper nice if when updating you were only sent the deltas & Linux had a tool to "put the jigsaw puzzle" together.<br>
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Well part of the problem may be the choice of distro. Ubuntu seems to only pull the drivers I need. As for library packages, that's the nature of the beast.<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
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Even when doing an upgrade, you can have problems. I just upgraded my Ubuntu Hardy to Heron server install & it was messaging me like crazy w/php-lib package errors.<br>
I already bugged it on launchpad, but I was surprised to have an upgrade issue.<br>
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Why? All software has bugs and issues with upgrades. Ubuntu isn't perfect but neither is any other OS/software.<br>
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