what flavour of linux do you use ?

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Marty_J wrote: »

If you want to make a valid comparison, you really need to compare them to Vista. If a Linux distro requires less RAM than a contemporary edition of Windows, then it's hardly a lie to say that Windows is a resource hog.

Why not use comparisons including all of the versions of Windows that are still supported by Microsoft?

richardlionheart

Lets all pull together guys ! , both OS have their strength and weakness no doudt about it.;)

i found this amusing story "LINUX GOES TO MARS"

http://www.bloggernews.net/116062

QUESTION TO PC geeks ( including me in there :j)

when watching movies on a Lap Top
how to conserve as much battery life as possible ?

Play dvd , play from hard drive , convert to other format ,lower chip set ,, ? etc ,etc
your thoughts

cheers
Rich

fwor

On the basis of absolutely no research or experimental evidence, I'd reckon that playing it from the laptop's own HDD would probably be most power-efficient, because that would almost certainly still be running anyway, whatever additional device (such as a Pendrive) you might use.

If you could persuade the OS to spin down the HDD and just read from a pendrive that would probably be the most efficient, but I suspect that you won't be able to do that.

If you were to run both the OS and the DVD from a pendrive and turn off the HDD, you could probably save more power - but that's not exactly convenient...