Joe, 13.11.2011: > On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:09:49 -0600 > "Selim T. Erdogan" <se...@alumni.cs.utexas.edu> wrote: > > > Joe, 13.11.2011: > > > > > > And I hate to invoke the Godwin's Law of Open Source, but my other > > > workstation isn't up to running the fancy graphical bits of Windows > > > 7, either, but Microsoft provide a perfectly good and > > > fully-functional alternative, and don't warn me that it will only > > > work for a while. > > > > (Warning: getting off topic) > > Indeed so, let's run away quickly after this. > > > > I am curious what you meant by the alternative. Is it Windows 7 with > > some stuff turned off, or is it something else? (I am not familiar > > with W7 but there are some old machines around with XP on them and > > XP support will end in April 2014.) > > > > > > There is a substantial step up in resources required in going from XP > to Win7 or its beta version, Vista. An absolute minimum of a G of > RAM is necessary, and even bottom-end computers are normally sold > with 2G. There is a free MS program somewhere that can determine whether > an XP machine can usefully run Win7. > > Yes, the situation is a bit like Compiz, Windows will either offer the > fancy 3D Aero features or not depending on a few things, mostly graphics > power. The point is that the functional features of the DE don't depend > on how fancy the graphics are, so everything else works the same either > way, and the non-Aero version will not be withdrawn after a while. You > don't get a bald statement that Win7 won't run, here's Windows 98 > instead, but don't get used to it.
I haven't understood yet: Do you mean Windows 7's fancy graphics stuff (Aero?) may be turned off for lower-capability machines, or do you mean MS offers the alternative of Windows 98? (If the latter, I thought it wasn't getting updated anymore. Is there anything that gives no-longer-updated Windows versions an advantage compared to older versions of Debian that include Gnome 2?) > I don't see why my old Gnome environment just disappeared down the > plughole simply because my graphics driver or chipset doesn't do > hardware 3D acceleration. Because you're using testing or unstable? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111113231642.gb26...@cs.utexas.edu
