On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 18:08:30 -0500 Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Tim wrote: > > > > Just so you know, you can use a DVD on a system with a 500 MHz CPU, > > I do it. I manage burning error-free DVDs quite nicely on a 500 > > MHz Celeron with around only 380 megs of RAM, on FC4. The minimum > > PC specs you see on DVD packaging generally is regards to what > > you'll need to run Windows and the DVD burning software that they > > provide with the burner. Linux doesn't have the same overheads > > (inefficiencies) that Windows has. > > Umm? Windows XP runs my benchmark programs faster than Fedora does. > Please don't spread FUD. There are good reasons for some people > to run Linux rather than Windows, but "Windows is more inefficient" > is not one of them. > > Mike Are these programs architecture/software neutral? i.e. Were they designed with Windows in mind? I'm not saying that it doesn't, I'm just curious about all those assumptions that are built in. Sort of the way I feel about climate modelling. Or to quote Mark Twains famous dictum "Lies, damn lies, and statistics". :-)
