Re: Linux v/s Mac OS X?

[thaths@xxxxxxxxx (Sudhakar Chandra)]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 11:29:18PM +0530, did Sandip Bhattacharya write:
> 1. I still haven't figured out why a newbie has to sit down with his
>    Monitor and Graphics card manuals with a scratch-pad for the refresh
>    rates, while a Windows system does most of the work by itself! 

This is mostly due to a large number of vendors submitting their graphic
card and monitor specs to MS.  In the case of X, the specs are all those
collected by users like you and I.  WinDOS does an excellent job of
hardware probing.  Such autoprobing does not exist in most distributions.
I've heard that the Corel distribution had a really good autodetection
system.

> 2. I have a triple boot system at home - Windows98/RedHat
>    Linux/FreeBSD. Even with 128MB of RAM, X (windows system) takes
>    such a agonising time to load and is such a goddam memory
>    hog. Strangely enough, X was faster in FreeBSD than Linux even if
>    it was the same code! So while X with KDE 1 in manageable in
>    FreeBSD, I still have to stick to X with icewm in linux.

Honestly, I haven't had such problems in ages.  128M of RAM does the job
admirably for me.

Thaths
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