----- Original Message ----- From: Jerry dovecot.user@seibercom.net Date: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 11:03 am Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Linux should be as easy as Windows To: dovecot@dovecot.org
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.
I have a new shiney multicore 64-bit machine with an NVidia graphics card etc etc and Win 7 seems to work "okay" with 4G of memory. Performance still sucks compared to Solaris or Debian on the same box but it plays movies well.
I installed Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit which I bought as a non-upgrade box kit. $$$$
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).
I'll try a old 32-bit box with baseline hardware sometime just to see ... it could be a waste of my time however.
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.
I as joking. :-)
Dennis