Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 12:35:58 -0500 From: "Jud" <judmarc@fastmail.fm> To: "Peter Schuller" <peter.schuller@infidyne.com>, "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: Strangehue@aol.com Subject: Re: What OS should I use? Message-ID: 1076348158.13508.180743857@webmail.messagingengine.com In-Reply-To: <200402091347.50567.peter.schuller@infidyne.com> References: <1c3.14c70dd1.2d58d371@aol.com> <200402091347.50567.peter.schuller@infidyne.com>
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On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 13:47:50 +0100, "Peter Schuller" <peter.schuller@infidyne.com> said: [snip] > > I also think there may be another issue I haven't diagnosed yet. I tried a > > version of KNOPPIX WFTL edition from a book (Moving to Linux) but it > > wouldn't load on my machine. It asked me to insert another disk but I > > didn't have one (I got the book from the library). It did load on friends > > PC so the disk was good though it ran to slow from the CD ROM to know if > > I'd want Linux. I do know that that the regular KNOPPIX comes with two > > Knoppix is no indication on the speed of Linux - and the same goes for > any > other livecd system. Performance is greatly hampered by the slow seeking > and > reading of the CD. Especially given the (by today's standards) low amount > of > RAM we are talking about. KNOPPIX and other operating systems in livecd form use your RAM as something like a hard drive. Little RAM = low capacity hard drive, maybe too low for KNOPPIX to load everything it needed to run on your machine. Jud
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