[Klug-general] Is the worm slowly turning?

[Nathan Friend]

Picked up by your semantics, sounds painfull.  Oh right, thats what you were
talking about...

Nathan.

On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Karl Lattimer <karl at qdh.org.uk> wrote:

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>
>
> On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:07:04 +0100, "Martin A. Brooks"
> <martin at antibodymx.net> wrote:
> > Karl Lattimer wrote:
> >> However, I'd say this, for highly customised OS's on specialist hardware
> >> like eeepc its just right.
> >
> > The EEE isn't specialist hardware, it's very generic x86 kit.
>
> Compared to a standard x86 machine now it is specialist, in that its low
> power, low Mhz, low memory compared to an ordinary off the shelf box.
>
> Its bottom of the line in other words, built out of hardware less suited to
> the current OS requirements.
>
> >
> >> They've upped the
> >> specs to run XP on eeepc, and even then its pre-configured to be
> > retarded
> >> by default. So what hope would they have with vista+.
> >>
> >
> > I run XP and Linux on my EEE, XP works remarkably well.
>
> It might run well, however, have you noticed anything missing?
>
> The eeepcs shipped with XP don't use NTFS because it wares the SSD out very
> very quickly... The next gen windows ones have a HDD because of this. This
> is only one of the items that requires removal.
>
> In itself SSD is specialist and requires a file system that does write
> minimilisation and ware leveling, neither of which are available in either
> of microsofts file system formats.
>
> BR,
>  K
>
> p.s. please don't just pick on points to argue, its a bit boring now from
> this list. every time I make a comment, some pissy twonk wants to pick me
> up on the semantics of my language.
>
>
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