The Ripper
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So as some of you know my lap tops mother board is fried so my lap top is in a corner of the closet collecting dust. I ended up picking up some old pentium 4 1.5 ghz processor with 256 mb of Ram from work they were going to throw out. It is by no means a power house but for what I need (web browsing, email and chatting) its more then enough to get the job done. The ting had windows 2000 on it.
I attempted to instal an older version of open SUSE but it wouldnt install. I upgraded to windows xp and the system was running riddiculously slow. Even after I dissabled alot of the useless stuff from XP it was just running a lot slower the it did when I had windows 2000 on it. I decided to check out windows 2000 and ive it a shot. I was suprised when I found out that alot of the programs for xp (drivers etc) worked because they shared the same kernel.
The operating system is running so much smoother then XP did as well. I was suprised. Im going to end up leaving 2000 installed on this computer because theres no need to change. I never really used windows 2000 before but I have to say I like 2000 pro better then xp
I attempted to instal an older version of open SUSE but it wouldnt install. I upgraded to windows xp and the system was running riddiculously slow. Even after I dissabled alot of the useless stuff from XP it was just running a lot slower the it did when I had windows 2000 on it. I decided to check out windows 2000 and ive it a shot. I was suprised when I found out that alot of the programs for xp (drivers etc) worked because they shared the same kernel.
The operating system is running so much smoother then XP did as well. I was suprised. Im going to end up leaving 2000 installed on this computer because theres no need to change. I never really used windows 2000 before but I have to say I like 2000 pro better then xp