On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Troy.A Johnson wrote: > Mark, > > Windows 1998 is being compared to Linux 2001. Yup, I'd have to agree. kernel 2.4, X 4.x, gnome, and KDE are designed in 2001 for 2001 hardware. If you go back and compare a 1998 distro, say RH5.2 running fvwm you may see an increase in performance. One thing I noticed about X 4.x is that it runs better than 3.x on new hardware but slower on old hardware. I've got a 233 with 192 MB RAM and Mandrake 8 runs circles around Win2K, I'm not brave enough to try XP on it. The funny thing is that NT admins were giving me funny looks when I told them Win2K even ran on my system. Most didn't think it'd even boot. Even in today's distros a 133 is a useful machine. -Brian