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- wyrdness, on 11/22/2007, -9/+1457 years is not VERY old, even for a computer. PC's back then still had gigahertz processors and 3D graphics cards. Quake 3 came out in 1999, FFS. When I read the title, I thought that someone had it running on something from the 1980's or before. Now that would be impressive, unlike this.
- Philluminati, on 11/22/2007, -10/+109Seriously though, it really speaks volumes about the efficiency of Linux. 128MB RAM and 32MB graphics card compared to the minimum requirements for vista being 512MB RAM.
- RudyV, on 11/22/2007, -72/+158DIGG ME DOWN!!!!
- 1337zork, on 11/22/2007, -3/+58That computer almost have the same speccs as mine at home.. need... new ... computer...!
- houndeyex, on 11/22/2007, -3/+58Think about it though: a Pentium III and a geforce 2 isn't anything to sneeze at. It's plenty for an OS and videos. Keep in mind that we didn't watch him LOAD anything. That's where the RAM comes into play.
- silentdragoon, on 11/22/2007, -3/+55I'm still running a P2 350 MHz, 256 MB RAM, 20 GB HD, and dual-booting XP / Ubuntu. A P3 is luxury!
- HKLozzo, on 11/22/2007, -2/+467 years is a VERY old computer? I had my last PC for 5 years. The only reason i stopped using it was cause the MoBo got fried in a power surge. It was running just fine until then. And it was running Win XP, surfing with broadband, downloading torrents, etc. OK, the graphics card couldn't cope with the latest games but i'm not a gamer. I'm just presuming it could have been running Linux with hardly much effort then? VERY old indeed!
- Philluminati, on 11/22/2007, -2/+39I put 4 typewriters on my table and ask my mum to push me around the table on a wheely-chair. Now that's REAL 3d.
- breakaway, on 11/22/2007, -2/+36I went to digg your smart ass down but accidentally missed and hit the up button :
- hyperair, on 11/22/2007, -3/+36Reverse psych huh? Not falling for that! *diggs you up anyway*
- has2k1, on 11/22/2007, -0/+32No dude. It is missing ze dust.
- inactive, on 11/22/2007, -0/+28Bah. I have mklinux running on a Quadra 700, 128 MB RAM, with X windows. That computer is from 1991, IRC.... So yeah, >15 years v. 7 years, on a chip that went obsolete in 1994. You bore me.
/wank wank wank.... - inactive, on 11/22/2007, -0/+28Yeah, they called a Pentium 3 "VERY old". I was expecting an old i386 without internets capabilities or something. Pentium 3 is still good computer if you are not playing the latest computer games.
- thomasprebble, on 11/22/2007, -6/+33More proof (if we needed it) of what the open source community is capable of. Not only can they do it better than Microsoft but on no budget and with ancient hardware. Keep it up guys!
- searayman, on 11/22/2007, -4/+28I have this same graphics card but my computer doesnt run compiz fusion as well, is it because i am using normal ubuntu and not xfe
- phoque, on 11/22/2007, -1/+25Jesus, a Pentium 3 with 800MHz isn't old!
I am running Linux on a 133MHz @ 90MHz Pentium with 16MBytes of RAM. I use it as an MP3-Player... although without any X-Server but with Orpheus on the console: http://www.phoque.de/projekte/mp3_player/
With remote-control from any other computer, auto-mounting MP3-discs and stuff. - rageguy, on 11/22/2007, -0/+23No he is correct, the Core 2's have more in common with the Pentium III than the Pentium 4. The Core series evolved from the Pentium M which are essentially modified Pentium III's. The Pentium III processor was able to achieve similar performance to the mobile version of the Pentium 4 but at a lower clock speed and as such used much less power.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_M - miccet, on 11/22/2007, -0/+22It might be an indicator to how scalable linux is resource wise, and that might be a huge appeal to a group of people not wanting to buy a new computer every time they switch OS.
- inactive, on 11/22/2007, -2/+24The thing is that he only had 128 mb of ram. And have you ever tried running vista on minimum requirements? Slow as a hooker giving birth... ... ...wait, that doesnt make sense.
- chingy1788, on 11/22/2007, -1/+20Note to all users of Computers
If you like the OS you are running now, then stick with it - yetAnotherCroc, on 11/22/2007, -0/+18One word: Yes
- kahrn, on 11/22/2007, -1/+19Correct.
- morriscat, on 11/22/2007, -11/+29P3's kicked ass.. from about 800mhz on up. Whats a core2 anyway except a pimped out P3?
- inactive, on 11/22/2007, -8/+25Gimp'ed
- sp1nm0nkey, on 11/22/2007, -1/+18Err... the transforms that compiz do are fairly simple. It's not that impressive that a not all that old computer can do this, it's impressive how inefficient microsoft made their implementation.
- teaBagger, on 11/22/2007, -1/+17I have compiz running on a 8bit 1981 VIC20 at 1920x1200 with 5k of ram!!!
sukkar! - spambutcher, on 11/22/2007, -4/+19one of the youtube comments brought up a good point: lets see how that thing runs with some real apps running.
Specifically - I'd like to see him open up 6 tabs in Firefox (including a few to digg) - and then pull off that same stuff.
at least half my desktop's (Windows XP) performance issues are due to firefox taking up 600MB ram / 98% CPU. can't blame that on Microsoft.
the OS is only half the bloatware problem... - DeathGod321, on 11/22/2007, -1/+16Don't tell me what to do!
- Philluminati, on 11/22/2007, -0/+15so your not upgrading to vista then?
- inactive, on 11/22/2007, -3/+18Correct.
- EdwardsNH, on 11/22/2007, -0/+14I know, I laughed too when I saw "VERY old computer", then realized I'm still running one older and slower (Ubuntu XFCE)
- TechCF, on 11/22/2007, -3/+17Correct
- Ashex, on 11/22/2007, -0/+13pretty much, gnome/kde require at least 256 to run smoothly.
- aliguana, on 11/22/2007, -9/+22Hmmm... I'm running Vista on a machine from 2000. OK, I put more memory into the beastie, but aside from that it works fine. You see, there is this notion, perpetuated by the hardware manufacturers, that you NEED to upgrade your computer every six months, or you won't be able to do anything on it. Bull. For gaming, maybe. But my 7 year old Vista-running machine runs Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Office etc etc just fine thanks. I need a quad-core 64-bit 8 gig machine for... what, exactly? Rotating desktops?
- catt231, on 11/22/2007, -8/+20Die Vista Die!
- kahrn, on 11/22/2007, -2/+14It's worth noting that the end difference probably won't be that much anyways.
- Philluminati, on 11/22/2007, -4/+16Correct.
- Spuy767, on 11/22/2007, -0/+12Indeed. Netburst was an engineering dead end. Sure, you could get wildly high clock numbers, I think ARS or Engadget or somebody got 6 GHz by cooling the chip with liquid nitrogen, but the Core architecture can do so much more per clock cycle that it eats Netburst chips for lunch.
- ArthurSucks, on 11/22/2007, -0/+12Doesn't matter. You could tell that it was pushing full juice to do that. The video would freeze up when he switch from 2D to 3D.
- renegadeafk, on 11/22/2007, -2/+13What the hell my computer is a 3.0ghz p4, 2 gb ram, 7600GS and it runs it a little slower than that.
- Spuy767, on 11/22/2007, -1/+12I had 10.4 running on a clamshell iBook with 256 ram, that thing was nearly nine years old. It was perfectly usable for everything but photoshop and games.
- TechCF, on 11/22/2007, -0/+11Well, the some of the devs are paid though ;)
- Bromskloss, on 11/22/2007, -2/+13Can that old graphics card (GeForce 2 MX/400) really do the things needed for this? I mean, isn't the graphics card supposed to do the wiggling windows, for example. Can it really do that?
- ArthurSucks, on 11/22/2007, -1/+11Vista needs insane amount of computer even when NOT using eye candy.
- airstrike, on 11/22/2007, -0/+10i wouldn't dare to run vista on anything with less than 1GB ram. i actually have 2GB here and still decided to drop vista completely (granted it wasn't only due to ram usage.)
- mallardtheduck, on 11/22/2007, -2/+12Of course on older machines, compiling Gentoo will take *days*...
- TRENT310, on 11/22/2007, -0/+10You know, that's why we have multi-core processors instead of having multi-gigahertz processors. The higher the clock speed, the hotter it runs, and then eventually you get to a point where it gets really inefficient to cool it. So people decided to throw multiple cores on the same chip.
- smek2, on 11/22/2007, -0/+10Uhm, why did you install Vista then? Photoshop and Dreamweaver runs perfectly on my old Windows2000 Box.
What you said about hardware is certainly true, but i don't get why you question eyecandy (rotating desktops) but install Vista. - smek2, on 11/22/2007, -1/+10Same here. Same Box for more then 5 years now. I wonder what magic keeps my two hard disks running. Used Wndows2000 and Suse Linux for years without any major complaint (needed couple of security patches for both though, especially Windows what with the Win32 blaster etc.). Never felt the need for updating my OS or hardware and pitty those kids masturbating to eyecandy and spending moms money on new hardware, just because Vista and Crysis is coming out.
- kahlessreborn, on 11/22/2007, -5/+14Anyone notice how he never shows the actual computer or a window displaying the computer specs?
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