On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:07:27 -0400 Dennis Clarke dclarke@blastwave.org articulated:
Sometimes things are not and that is okay. GNOME is not XFCE or Fluxbox but we have freedom to choose either. Perhaps by "light" you mean you don't need 32G of memory and a dual socket 12-core Opteron 6100 series machine with some hot NVidia graphics card and 10Gb ethernet to just *barely* install Windows 8. :-)
I just installed Win7 on a 7 year old Dell 4550 with only 1G of RAM. Obviously, since I do not have the latest video cards, etc. installed in the PC, certain functions were disabled by default; however, it definitely works. I only did the installation to see if it would really work, and was pleasantly surprised to see how well it performed. That was, of course, on a virgin system (all data erased from drives and reformatted).
By the way, Win8 is not even scheduled to be released until at least July 1, 2010 and even that is not written in stone.
-- Jerry ✌ Dovecot.user@seibercom.net
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