“Tectonic journalist Richard Frank’s column about his sad 300Mhz
laptop with 128MB RAM and its slow performance with Linux (Taking a
fstab at Linux) caused much wrath and waving of fists among our
readers. He bravely took the attack on the chin, and I hope that
the experience doesn’t slow his inevitable slide into the world of
open source.“His situation is not unique. I often hear complaints that Linux
runs slower than Windows on the same system…”
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