Hi David
Replying to a message of David Nugent to Vaughan Wickham:

 >> I'm curious to know how Linux compares to Warp in terms
 >> of multi-tasking performance

 DN> This is going to be a highly unpopular viewpoint ...

I've moved over to OZ_LINUX to avoid creating any OS war type "debates"

Thanks for the feedback though

 >> is there a GUI shell for Linux (& is it any good).

 DN> If you're not familiar with it and don't have
 DN> time to learn it, then I'd seriously suggest sticking with OS/2. The
 DN> down-side of all that power is that (1) the learning curve is steep,
 DN> and (2) you have to do all of the setup yourself

Sounds like I'm in for some interesting times

 >> I'm thinking about putting together a DX/2-66 with 16MB &
 >> 200-400MB of hard disk to play around with Linux ...
 >> would this be an adequate platform

 DN> It would be adequate, but not exceptional. If you plan to run X, I'd
 DN> highly recommend an accelerated video card of some sort. For text
 DN> mode, 16mb is plenty unless you're going to be developing apps

No I just want to learn the Unix basics and & gain a better
understanding of TCP/IP comms than I have at the moment. I think I'll skip
'X' for the moment too.

Regards,
Vaughan

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