I always thought Linux should advertise its run-ability on old hardware. For example, mac and windows could do their thing, maybe with mac accidentally letting it slip that it's actually UNIX on a PC, and then Linux would claim to be really fast. then Mac or PC would say that he doesn't seem that fast, and Linux would say, "yeah, but I'm running on an 8 year old computer I bought used for $50. how much did you cost?" A lot of people aren't interested in much more than a web browser, an email client, a word processor and a media player. Their most demanding application is probably playing embedded TV quality video, and a 2Ghz dual core CPU with 2GB of RAM and 256MB of video RAM is a little overkill. An iPhone can do most of that with 533Mhz and 128MB.
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I always thought Linux should advertise its run-ability on old hardware. For example, mac and windows could do their thing, maybe with mac accidentally letting it slip that it's actually UNIX on a PC, and then Linux would claim to be really fast. then Mac or PC would say that he doesn't seem that fast, and Linux would say, "yeah, but I'm running on an 8 year old computer I bought used for $50. how much did you cost?" A lot of people aren't interested in much more than a web browser, an email client, a word processor and a media player. Their most demanding application is probably playing embedded TV quality video, and a 2Ghz dual core CPU with 2GB of RAM and 256MB of video RAM is a little overkill. An iPhone can do most of that with 533Mhz and 128MB.