Just out of curiousity, why would Windows cost $610? Is that in non-US
funds, or were you talking about buying Windows 2003 Server or something?
You can buy a 1-2 CPU copy of Windows 2000 for like $100 on eBay. Still
money you prolly don't want to spend, but far from being out of reach.
Not that I'm advocating for Windows, but I just don't know why you'd have
to spend $610 on Windows...

And with Linux, there is no reason you have to run a bloted enviornment
like KDE or GNOME.  On my older K6/2 machine I run RedHat 9 with the ion
window manager and that's it.... although on that machine, I spend more
time in Windows 2000 as it is quite a bit more responsive.  Unless I'm on
a hardcore Squeak kick- than I just run Squeak directly on the linux
framebuffer- no X11, no KDE/GNOME, no GTK, nothing but Squeak and the
videocard, and for web browsing run links with the graphical component
compiled in (links -g), which even does tabs!, also displaying on the
framebuffer.

Regards,
Aaron

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On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Alan Grimes wrote:

> After a two and a half month outage, I finaly have a new HD for my dual
> athlon.
>
> The most recient version of Leenooks on hand is SuSE 8.0. =\
>
> I would like to find the best OS for Squeak develment and develment of
> my own OS project, Sphere, with a L4/psitachio environment.
>
> BeOS is currently out of the picture because it can't boot on the Dual
> athlon.
> Windows would cost me $610 (which I don't have).
>
> I strongly dislike bloated desktop environments such as KDE.
>
> One further limitation of my current setup is that the dual athlon does
> not have direct internet access, It can only FTP files from my BeOS
> machine. =\
>