[lbo-talk] Vista

[Michael Smith]

Almost any Linux distro will be more sparing of memory and CPU than 
the contemporary Windows version, but the sad truth is that the 
Linux distros I've seen lately (Suse and Fedora Core) are fairly demanding
on both counts. Slackware used to be the lean-and-mean Linux, but I haven't 
sampled their wares lately. Are they still around, even?  

On the other hand, SuSe and Fedora will at least work just fine in a 
gig of RAM and they won't be full of security holes; and unless the present is 
very much unlike the past, anything from Microsoft will make you reboot a 
couple of times a day and expose your credit card numbers to anybody who 
really wants them. I'll be very surprised if Vista proves to be an exception. 
The great marketing imperative for Microsoft is featurization, rather than 
getting it right.