Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:54:55 05/02/02
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On May 01, 2002 at 14:59:49, Christophe Theron wrote: >On May 01, 2002 at 10:10:50, Roy Eassa wrote: > >>On April 30, 2002 at 19:21:22, ERIQ wrote: >> >>>As it would seem dos is just dead after looking at the responses to my last post >>>on the subject of is hiarcs 8 going to come w/ dos versions. Know one had any >>>faith it was going to happen. Well ok then what about an engine for Xboard that >>>could run on unixes I find it hard to believe that people would not buy it. and >>>none of these os's are going any where any time soon. Just a thought >>> >>> sign, >>> Eriq >> >> >>Indeed, more and more people are using Linux, and I think your question is a >>good one. > > > >More and more? Probably, yes. Last time I checked the stats of >www.chesstiger.com I had 0.7% visitors using Linux. Now it's 1.4%. That's >progress of a sort... OK... since you don't quite follow exponential math, here is an offer: Today give me one penny. Tomorrow give me double that. And do so for an entire month. At the end of the month I will give you $100 so you make a big profit for this exercise. Ready to go? Hint: "doubling" is _not_ a tiny increase... It is huge... > >However I do not want to sound too harsh against Linux. At this time I have it >running on 4 computers at my office. From 486-dx 133MHz to PIII-733MHz. > >I am more and more interested in Linux and I am trying it at this time. > >Something I still do not understand: even on my fast computers, even with 150Mb >of RAM or more, starting ANY application under KDE2 takes at least 2 seconds. >Even if I just launch a tiny NotePad-like editor. Even if I launch it, close it, >and launch it again immediately. Am I doing something wrong or is it considered >as normal? > > It isn't normal... but no idea what could cause it... > > Christophe
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