[ale] Has Linux gone where Microsoft can't follow?

[Jeff Hubbs]

I didn't think you could use SD et al. for heavy read-write for any 
significant amount of time before the card died.  What's up with that?

Geoffrey wrote:
> Steve Brown wrote:
>> On Dec 7, 2007 10:27 AM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
>>> <http://tinyurl.com/ypefvv>
>>>
>>> I don't get it.  They claim that you need 2GB to run Office on XP.
>>>
>>> Their own website claims you can run Office Ultimate on 256MB.
>>>
>>> They say you need 512MB to run XP, so even if it's cumulative, you're
>>> still only looking at 768MB.
>>>
>>> It seems they're talking about storage.
>
> Ah, duh.  In this day and age, 3G storage space never occurred to me. :)
>
>> The hard disk requirements for
>> Office Ultimate is 3 gigs (although the XO doesn't have a HD,  hence 
>> the SD
>> card). I find the whole thing hilarious, because I remember Billyboy
>> slamming OLPC pretty hard when it first started. I think now they 
>> realize
>> the impact of having countries grow up on Linux :)
>>
>> -Steve
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