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Originally Posted by gxsaurav
If you install 3rd party apps like Firefox/Pidgin/openoffice then the system requirement of Linux also shoots up.
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Every netbook I read about comes with these and still perform very well on low RAM. Also these apps are different from AV which Nucleus was telling about. An AV runs always but these apps run only when user starts them.
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Originally Posted by gxsaurav
You can run Windows XP same way on 256 MB RAM & Vista same way even at 512 MB RAM.
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No it is not the same way. Say I run a Linux system with no AV and an idling Firewall. Now my friend brings a USB key in which there is a document he downloaded from his mail in a neighborhood browsing center or from another friend of his. I can happily plug the device and copy the file without worrying abt malware. Can I do that on Windows Vista (don't even imagine XP), if I have no AV?
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Originally Posted by gxsaurav
Yes, it is called prefatch. Keep in mind that the current builds shown are full of beta & debug code which result in memory leeks
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I agree with you there. But it also is incomplete, which means there will be more upcoming features which will hog resources too. So it is too early to call Windows 7 a light OS and calling it a Linux killer is a joke for sure.