In comp.os.linux.advocacy, GreyCloud
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on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:54:06 -0600
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> Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
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>> On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:24:33 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>>| Worse, this group believes they will be able to pop in the install discs
>>>| for XP on their new machine and everything will be as it was. Not.
>>>`----
>>>
>>>http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2010942,00.asp
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>>
>> Bah. This has been blown out of proportion. Vista will work just fine on
>> amost any machine that can run XP. I say almost because you'll probably
>> need at least 256MB, which has been standard for several years. No, you
>> won't be running the fancy Aero UI with that, but most everything else will
>> work fine.
>>
>> Vista can gracefully degrade. If you don't have the resources for the high
>> end features, yhou can still use the OS.
>
> Gracefully degrade? You mean like fall back easily to being XP?
I think he means "gracefully fall over and play dead". :-)
KDE has an interesting setting for performance enhancements. I
suspect Microsoft mignt "innovate" something similar for thair
Aero GUI.
> A little bit expensive of an o/s that can fall back to XP if you ask me.
>
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