On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 11:27:27AM -0500, Tom Ryan wrote:
> Of course, as the problem originally existed, if you booted the machine
> and waited a couple of minutes (i.e. got a cup of coffee, finished putting
> your stuff away, etc), you never noticed, but if you sat and waited for
> the login to appear and quickly logged in (and your machine was a bit
> slower, 500mhz anyone), you got bit..
> On the faster machines (not using dhcp, etc, etc, etc), the problem is not
> as noticeable.
> The end result, is that on a 500mhz machine, the synchronous boot of
> linux, is much more efficient than windows.
I think I gave up on Windows XP working on older hardware a long, long
time ago... :-)
Of course, I usually also give up on GNOME or KDE as well. Even Mozilla. :-)
Cheers,
mark
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