Is LINUX really that sleek and efficient?

[Gregory Fruth]

Linus pronounces it something like "Lee-nux", presumably
because he also pronounces Linus as "Lee-nus". Well,
I pronounce "Linus" as "Lye-nus", so I say "Lye-nux".

Some people get very upset at this pronounciation and
INSIST that you say "Lih-nux". The whole pronounciation
issue is quite stupid and pointless, so I just ignore them.

[dirk dierickx]

linux is still sleek and efficient, it runs on a boatload of PDAs, IBM watch, embedded devices, none of those versions take 9Gb of space.

ofcourse those are special cases, for PC use, use RH6.2, it is an old dog, but contains most of the stuff you need to fiddle around with linux.
or debian, the base install of both of these will possibly take 300-400Mb.

Recently i have been running debian woody from a 486sx@25 with 12Mb and 500Mb disk, no problems (ofcourse slow(er), but what did you expect?)

[John Meissner]

Red Hat (or Linux in general) has way more in the install disks than you need to install. My installs usually only end up at about 1.XX gig. As for more streamlined... we've benchmarked Linux servers running SAP MUCH MUCH faster on Linux. This was an extensive test that took about 3 months. With the load we threw at the Linux box we would have downed a HP-UX server. The Linux box just asked for more... it was awesome.

[AlienRoadShow]

I am unable to assign points to the latest responses and have been trying for a couple of days now. Is there a maximum I'm allowed to award?

[Jerome Henry]

No Bill,

It's a bogus. Michael Steel reported your problem at
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xf57c3f9a15add711abdc0090277a778c,00.html
Try to reassign, maybe one or 2 posts, to see if it could be fixed.

J