Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > On Thu, November 2, 2017 2:41 pm, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: >> Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote: >> >>> And you are talking about 8 years old system on what would be called >>> decent hardware about the same 8 years back, right? >> >> The hardware is 6 years old and, at the time, Tech Report called it >> "the best netbook we've ever tested". So it was quite good (for a >> netbook) at the time. >> >> Everything depends on the OP's intended use, of course. I just wanted >> to disagree that you need better hardware for Linux than for Windows, >> or at least for CentOS 6 than Windows 7. > > No I never intended to say you need better hardware for Linux than for > Windows. It is opposite in my opinion, but both these systems pace at > similar curve with their demands. To the contrary to Windows and Linux, > FreeBSD has much slower increase in demands, namely, when Linux and > Windows go up about hardware specs about exponentially, FreeBSD goes much > closer to linear. And therefore, I would predict that the laptop with the > specs of OP will nicely run FreeBSD in 7 years, whereas it will feel slow, > obsolete etc in about 3 (maybe 4) years if one runs latest Linux or MS > Windows on it then. > > I hope, this time I finally managed to make myself clear ;-) > > Valeri > [The guy who runs hardware for 7-9 years, sometimes longer] Wimp. We just surplssed, earlier this year, our old supercomputer, an SGI Altrix 3000.... circa 2003..... (To be fair, it was only fired up a few times a year, so that one software maintainer could build for collaborators around the wolrd with old hardware.) mark mark