Re: [9fans] Laptop advice

["Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente" <lorenzobivens@gmail.com>]

Who needs firefox having abaco ;)

In fact I think linux has become more and more bloa... I mean resource
demanding lately.
Some years ago I had a 100MHz IBM (Cyrix?) 8MiB ram machine that made
marvels for me...
It is impressive what we did with so "little"... 3d modelling, raytracing...
What did get so wrong that now people are willing to pay for a 1GiB
ram minimum resource predator?

Anyway... Someone told me that Toshiba Libretto C70 works good with
plan 9... plus it is "VHS" sized.
(I think that floppy is a little tricky... I'll have to ask)


On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 10:49 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com> wrote:
> On Mon Jun  9 11:33:19 EDT 2008, digbyt@acm.org wrote:
>> I could well believe that Vista would struggle on anything less
>> than a Cray, but Linux isn't *that* demanding is it?
>>
>> I had a look at the T22 specs and they seem pretty respectable to
>> me, at least compared to some of the systems I have Linux running
>> on (eg 64MB, 266MHz Pentium MMX).
>>
>> And BSD is still running fine on my 48MB, 66MHz 486dx (although admitedly
>> its not so good for running netscape or heavy crypto).
>>
>> Of course it might be different if I were trying to run full blown
>> KDE or GNOME, but you can't really blame the operating system for that.
>> (though a T22 looks like it would be able to handle it if necessary)
>
> well the first thing most people run on linux is firefox, flash and
> acrobat.  those three horsemen of the apocalypse bring my pIII/256mb
> machine to its knees.
>
> while your point is valid, the only reason i run linux at all is for the
> three horsemen.  so maybe "linux" is not short for gnu/linux in most
> people's mind, it's short for firefox/linux. :-)
>
> - erik
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