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In all seriousness, if you have the option to revert to XP, take it. Perhaps Microsoft should have taken BBspot's facetious suggestion and caused Vista SP1 to reinstall Windows XP. "Went from using 650 MB RAM idle to 1 Gig. Other troubles reported by Vista SP1 users ranged from a simple inability to download the software from Microsoft's Windows Update site to sudden spikes in memory usage. "Bikkja" said that "after installing SP1 things seem to go really slow, even though my computer shouldn't have any problems." "It exiled all my Nvidia drivers to the Bermuda Triangle." "What a disaster," wrote "SeppDietrich" of the update. Igg圓3 was just one of dozens of posters complaining about Vista Service Pack 1's effect on their PCs. "I downloaded it via Windows Update, and got a bluescreen on the third part of the update," wrote "Igg圓3" in a comment posted Wednesday on Microsoft's Vista team blog. Now if only it can be installed to hard disk. So I'm always tickled to see someone pushing the lower bounds of memory requirements. Well, I remember graphical operating systems running in as little as 512K of memory (I once owned an Atari ST). It goes without saying that the performance of the machine with 16 MB of RAM won't be nearly as good as that of the 128 MB one, but it's still hard to believe that there is an operating system that can run in graphical mode on machines with so little memory. Computers with less memory can boot it too with the boot prompt cheat code of "slitaz-loram", computers with 64 MB of RAM are also supported, while those with as little as 16 MB of RAM will be able to run SliTaz as well - the cheat code is "slitaz-loram-cdrom". When it runs, the 25 MB compressed CD image expands to about 80 MB, so any computer with 128 MB of RAM will be able to load it fully into memory, ensuring blazing fast program execution.
SliTaz GNU/Linux 1.0 is not just another small desktop distro it is, in fact, the smallest by some margin and just half the size of Damn Small Linux.
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