Programmers use the new 2.5.blah series to try out new stuff. That new stuff doesnt always work as expected, and in some setups can cause loads of problems...
Saying 2.5.blah is only one step from 2.4.15, and therefore equally stable, doesnt really hold true.
I agree with the earlier posts that non-programming people (myself included) should try these new kernels to help the development of the open source project. Just be careful about it, and dont be too surprised if it all goes horribly, horribly wrong...
I run gnome / sawfish on my PII 233 with 256mb and it runs like a charm... Enlightenment is a bit of a memory hungry beast but even that runs ok.
Compared to the performance you would get from W2K on this spec machine, I would say that these desktop environments / windows managers are *very* efficient.
Please feel free to flame.
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Thats not strictly true...
Programmers use the new 2.5.blah series to try out new stuff. That new stuff doesnt always work as expected, and in some setups can cause loads of problems...
Saying 2.5.blah is only one step from 2.4.15, and therefore equally stable, doesnt really hold true.
I agree with the earlier posts that non-programming people (myself included) should try these new kernels to help the development of the open source project. Just be careful about it, and dont be too surprised if it all goes horribly, horribly wrong...
Thats all, flame now....
Always trust content from microsoft corporation?
Is that some kind of joke?
Make that 'post'
.. I just get too excited, you know...
Logged in first port!
I run gnome / sawfish on my PII 233 with 256mb and it runs like a charm... Enlightenment is a bit of a memory hungry beast but even that runs ok. Compared to the performance you would get from W2K on this spec machine, I would say that these desktop environments / windows managers are *very* efficient. Please feel free to flame.