[TriLUG] Linux version recommendations for OLD laptop...

[Joel James Adamson]

Chris Merrill <chris at webperformance.com> writes:

> On 7/19/2010 9:30 AM, Joel James Adamson wrote:
>> I always remember XP being slow as liquid nitrogen in January at the
>> South Pole on any machine I've ever used it on, so I can't recommend it
>> over Fedora or Ubuntu ;)
>
> Given that the average low temperate at the south pole, even in July
> (the coldest time of year there), is 258F degrees _above_ the boiling
> point of liquid nitrogen, should we take that as a ringing endorsement
> of Windows XP?

Okay, okay: poor joke research.

Let me rephrase: Whenever I've used Windows XP, it was as slow as a
brick obeying Newton's First Law of Motion (with no outside forces
acting on the brick).  How's that?

My experiences with Vista and Windows 7 have been similar.

Joel

-- 
Joel J. Adamson
Servedio Lab
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

FSF Member #8164
http://www.unc.edu/~adamsonj
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