What Killed the Linux Desktop (2012)

Re:What Killed the Linux Desktop (2012) by phillipwills on Sunday February 05, 2017 @11:41AM (#13573140)

Also, XP was released in 2002, so it should work rather well on the previous year's hardware...

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Re:What Killed the Linux Desktop (2012) by jankotek on Sunday February 05, 2017 @11:44AM (#13573156)

Wiki: General availability October 25, 2001; 15 years ago.

General minimum recommended for XP was/is 512MB.

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Re:What Killed the Linux Desktop (2012) by dfox on Sunday February 05, 2017 @08:17PM (#13575833)

Microsoft specified minimum is 64MB, recommended 128MB. XP RTM with 128MB RAM was perfectly usable, obviously it was not a good idea to run lots of crap in background.

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Re:What Killed the Linux Desktop (2012) by phillipwills on Monday February 06, 2017 @08:50PM (#13586257)

Nice... Didn't Google before posting... Busted. :)

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Re:What Killed the Linux Desktop (2012) by Sunset on Sunday February 05, 2017 @06:42PM (#13575435)

You're the hopeful kind I see. XP was utter shit on "medium" hardware of its time. It ate ram like no tomorrow compared to 98.

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