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   Subject: Re: Old computer - What version of Ubuntu should I use?   
   Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:42:41 -0800   
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   Andrew wrote:   
   >> Mike Easter wrote:   
      
   >>> I didn't realize ub's Gnome configuration should be considered less   
   >>> efficient than Win XP.   
      
   >  I would have to disagree. I run xp on 384RAM quite successfully   
   >  although with a P4 1.8. Gnome on the other hand is always spoken of   
   >  as needing 512RAM.   
      
   But, we don't want to talk about 'spoken of' so much as what you see in   
   your own experience.   
      
   Do you have the experience of running xp 'quite successfully' on the   
   same machine which you have the experience of running ub Gnome not as   
   successfully?   
      
   I wasn't trying to argue that alternate wm/s or dte/s are leaner than   
   ub/gnome which is where these threads typically go;  I'm questioning the   
   typical xp vs ub/gnome.   
      
   I have no experience with xp on the same hardware that I've run 98se and   
   lots of different linux distros, but my understanding of xp is that it   
   is a bloated fatty.   
      
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   Mike Easter   
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