Well - i'd definitely like to see it work with my own eyes.Still: Vista won't reach this level of smoothness on my 2 year old laptop, so i'm still impressed. Thinking about it - more disappointed in Vista.
I shall welcome my self to the retarted world of digg againdiggers care about seemingly unamazing stuff and care less of stuff that has 1% more amazingness to it800MHz comp running linux Wow!!! and doing nothing else133MHz comp running XP sp2 + playing some mp3s and some webbrowsing boo boring...Digg is just a Linux oriented society... too many super geeks
Higher clock does not always mean higher temperature, although it seems like it. The actual problem with higher clock speeds is the background noise. The higher the clock, the harder it is to tell noise from the actual signal. Intel found this out in the late Pentium 4 days when they were pushing 4GHz.
that is EXACTLY the "problem" with Vista. The boards are full of "my printer doesn't work", "my wireless doesn't work". That isn't Vista's fault. Come on, the beta of Vista was freely available to hardware manufactures 6 months before the thing hit final. But then again, some hardware manufacturers are only now releasing XP version of their drivers, it's a lax culture. God forbid Apple ever release OSX as vanilla, then they'd have three OS to write drivers for, and we'd never get anything done
a) it's also not practical to go and install Linux on an old PC that you haven't used in years, unless you've found a reason to use it. So saying it's not practical doesn't matter because he just did it because he could, not because there was any use in doing it.b) Pretty much anything apart form the latest games, weather simulations, and running Vista/Aero Glass, yup.I think the point of this video is that he can use Linux and have a GUI that has more cool effects than Aero Glass (which you only get if you pay for Vista) and requires much less power than Vista.c) How does this take away any CPU cycles that "could be better allocated"? First of all, those effects are more dependent on the GPU than the system's CPU as they're hardware-accelerated. Try doing the same thing with just a simple VGA card and you won't get half the performance in the video. Second of all, if you're running stuff like this I'm sure you're more worried about how things look than whether or not these effects hog up your computer's processing cycles.
herbsoloNov 22, 2007
Well - i'd definitely like to see it work with my own eyes.Still: Vista won't reach this level of smoothness on my 2 year old laptop, so i'm still impressed. Thinking about it - more disappointed in Vista.
chingy1788Nov 22, 2007
I shall welcome my self to the retarted world of digg againdiggers care about seemingly unamazing stuff and care less of stuff that has 1% more amazingness to it800MHz comp running linux Wow!!! and doing nothing else133MHz comp running XP sp2 + playing some mp3s and some webbrowsing boo boring...Digg is just a Linux oriented society... too many super geeks
witcompeNov 22, 2007
Higher clock does not always mean higher temperature, although it seems like it. The actual problem with higher clock speeds is the background noise. The higher the clock, the harder it is to tell noise from the actual signal. Intel found this out in the late Pentium 4 days when they were pushing 4GHz.
intruderiiNov 23, 2007
Not to mention Aero is rendered using hardware acceleration, unlike XP... which is why Vista uses almost no CPU cycles when moving windows around.
aliguanaNov 23, 2007
that is EXACTLY the "problem" with Vista. The boards are full of "my printer doesn't work", "my wireless doesn't work". That isn't Vista's fault. Come on, the beta of Vista was freely available to hardware manufactures 6 months before the thing hit final. But then again, some hardware manufacturers are only now releasing XP version of their drivers, it's a lax culture. God forbid Apple ever release OSX as vanilla, then they'd have three OS to write drivers for, and we'd never get anything done
silfirielNov 23, 2007
OLD, OLD, OLD!
canadalolzNov 23, 2007
we you expecting eyecandy on a punch-card computer?computer technology evolves quickly enough for 7 years to be "very old". get over it
linuxpenguinNov 26, 2007
Actually KDE runs fairly well on an old PC. I've used it before on the old Toshibas at work (through Knoppix).
linuxpenguinNov 26, 2007
a) it's also not practical to go and install Linux on an old PC that you haven't used in years, unless you've found a reason to use it. So saying it's not practical doesn't matter because he just did it because he could, not because there was any use in doing it.b) Pretty much anything apart form the latest games, weather simulations, and running Vista/Aero Glass, yup.I think the point of this video is that he can use Linux and have a GUI that has more cool effects than Aero Glass (which you only get if you pay for Vista) and requires much less power than Vista.c) How does this take away any CPU cycles that "could be better allocated"? First of all, those effects are more dependent on the GPU than the system's CPU as they're hardware-accelerated. Try doing the same thing with just a simple VGA card and you won't get half the performance in the video. Second of all, if you're running stuff like this I'm sure you're more worried about how things look than whether or not these effects hog up your computer's processing cycles.
mikjpSep 11, 2008
Seven years old P800 is not that old. Try a P100 or P400.