[SGVLUG] Upgrading on a slow connection

[Miguel Hernandez]

Charles,
Not trying to pass false info or bash MS as I've been a user for a long time
(still use XP almost every day). I recall reading the 768MB RAM bit as it
was getting released.
I had friends wanting me to deploy Vista for them for the cool factor & did
so (or tried). None of them were happy w/performance out of the box. I tried
the same thing w/mine & having 1GB of RAM at that time, I had the same
(disgustingly latent) outcome.

What I'm getting at is that it's not false info if it's my experience w/the
OS on varying hardware architectures. I trust your knowledge & experience,
Charles but I've never seen it done. If you have any links on how-to's for
performance tuning, etc., that'd be an interesting read for me.

Also, that's a great idea for David to bring the rig to the meeting. :)

--miguel

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Charles Wyble <charles at thewybles.com> wrote:

> Miguel Hernandez wrote:
>
>> Ya, it wouldn't run at ALL. Vista requires 768MB RAM just to boot up
>> (iirc).
>>
>
> It does not. I wish people would stop spreading false information. I use
> Windows/Linux/Mac on a daily basis. They all have there strengths and
> weaknesses. I begrudge no one there choice of operating system. However I do
> ask that people stop spreading false information. I have a vista virtual
> machine with 256 megs of ram, and have run it with as low as 128. Vista
> automatically turned off the fancy features on less resources. Too bad
> Ubuntu doesn't do that.
>
>  XP "only" requires 256MB.
>>
>
> XP can run in as little as 64 megs of ram out of the box. With tweaking I
> have run it in 32 megs of ram in a VM.
>
>  Hell, I tried installing Ubuntu Hardy on an 800MHz laptop & it was a slide
>> show.
>>
>
> Slide show?
>
>>
>> I agree, though, David. It would be super duper nice if when updating you
>> were only sent the deltas & Linux had a tool to "put the jigsaw puzzle"
>> together.
>>
>
> Well part of the problem may be the choice of distro. Ubuntu seems to only
> pull the drivers I need. As for library packages, that's the nature of the
> beast.
>
>> Even when doing an upgrade, you can have problems. I just upgraded my
>> Ubuntu Hardy to Heron server install & it was messaging me like crazy
>> w/php-lib package errors.
>> I already bugged it on launchpad, but I was surprised to have an upgrade
>> issue.
>>
>
> Why? All software has bugs and issues with upgrades. Ubuntu isn't perfect
> but neither is any other OS/software.
>
>>
>> --miguel
>>
>>
>
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