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Re: SO 5--bigger, or better?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Linux User)
Mon Nov 9 03:18:59 1998

Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 04:18:34 -0500 (EST)
From: Linux User <linuxuser@linuxtest.fellows.denison.edu>
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I haven't used the previous versions, but it is bloated, and slow

> For all of you that have successfully downloaded (how?) SO 5.0, and
> installed it--it is worth it?  Is it even bigger and more bloated than
> 4.0, or have they cleaned it up a bit?  Is it still a
> load-everything-at-once beheamoth, or is it now modular?  This thing was
> almost cool around version 3.x (at least on Warp), but 4.0 is about
> twice as bloated as any M$ app I can think of.  I love that it's free,
> but it sure is a dog in 64 MB RAM on a P6....
> 
> In what areas did it get better/worse?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jeff
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thanks, 

Fahd Sultan
Software Techie & Linux System Adminstrator
Denison U.
linuxuser@linuxtest.fellows.denison.edu
sultan_f@denison.edu


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