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On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:32:30 -0800,
Tim Smith wrote:
> In article ,
> Charlie Wilkes wrote:
>> > Well, the fact that Asus sells a Windows version right now in Japan, and
>> > has stated that they will release it in the US, are some big clues.
>> >
>> > XP easily fits on a 4 gig system.
>> >
>> Sure... get rid of the hibernation file, minimize restore points, make
>> sure you delete all the crap generated by Windows update... it can be
>> made to work with a bit of effort. Or you can run a Linux distro
>
> Nonsense. I checked my XP SP2 machine that I use for testing, and it is
> using under 2 gig for Windows. I put no special effort into making it
> small.
>




Does that include office?


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Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 04:18:21 GMT, Charlie Wilkes wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:28:54 -0500, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:35:07 GMT, Charlie Wilkes wrote:
>>>> Just one cycle back in this thread you agreed the Eee PC is a nice
>>>> machine.
>>> It is.
>>> Most people are wiping Linux and installing Windows on it though and
>>> Asus is releasing a Windows version shortly.
>> Bah. Where do you get this information? What version of Windows fits on
>> a 4gb flash drive? And what is the payoff?
>>
>> Charlie
>
> It's all over the net.
> Open your mind and you might find it.
>
> http://www.mahalo.com/Installing_Win...on_Asus_Eee_PC
>
> http://www.eeeguides.com/2007/11/ins...usb-thumb.html
>
> and so forth....
>
Did you actually read the procedure? It might be a bit daunting for a
windows user used to point and click. Also, considering the original
cost of the unit and then adding in the cost of xp, one might as well
buy a low end laptop from best buy. I just find it highly doubtful that
it is "most people" wiping linux and installing xp. ymmv.

--
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"Jim Richardson" wrote in message
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> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:32:30 -0800,
> Tim Smith wrote:
>> In article ,
>> Charlie Wilkes wrote:
>>> > Well, the fact that Asus sells a Windows version right now in Japan,
>>> > and
>>> > has stated that they will release it in the US, are some big clues.
>>> >
>>> > XP easily fits on a 4 gig system.
>>> >
>>> Sure... get rid of the hibernation file, minimize restore points, make
>>> sure you delete all the crap generated by Windows update... it can be
>>> made to work with a bit of effort. Or you can run a Linux distro
>>
>> Nonsense. I checked my XP SP2 machine that I use for testing, and it is
>> using under 2 gig for Windows. I put no special effort into making it
>> small.
>>
>
>
>
>
> Does that include office?

Do you have any idea how big office even is? I have Office 2K on this
machine.

248 files. 20 folders for a total of 83,729,875 bytes.

Office XP is a little bigger:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/285342

Available Hard Disk Space
The following table shows the default amount of space required for each
edition of Office.
Edition Approximate Disk Space Requirements*
------------------------------------------------------------
Standard 191 MB

Professional 230 MB

Professional 276 MB
with FrontPage
So yeah... with the 4-Gigs of free space installing 200-Megs of Office
software isn't going to break the bank.Still better than the bloatware of
OpenOffice:http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/s..._20.htmlSystem
Requirements for OpenOffice.org 2At least 800 Mbytes available disk space
for a default install (including a JRE) via download. After installation and
deletion of temporary installation files, OpenOffice.org will use
approximately 440 Mbytes disk space.

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"Troy Kirkland" writes:

> "Jim Richardson" wrote in message
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>> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:32:30 -0800,
>> Tim Smith wrote:
>>> In article ,
>>> Charlie Wilkes wrote:
>>>> > Well, the fact that Asus sells a Windows version right now in Japan,
>>>> > and
>>>> > has stated that they will release it in the US, are some big clues.
>>>> >
>>>> > XP easily fits on a 4 gig system.
>>>> >
>>>> Sure... get rid of the hibernation file, minimize restore points, make
>>>> sure you delete all the crap generated by Windows update... it can be
>>>> made to work with a bit of effort. Or you can run a Linux distro
>>>
>>> Nonsense. I checked my XP SP2 machine that I use for testing, and it is
>>> using under 2 gig for Windows. I put no special effort into making it
>>> small.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Does that include office?
>
> Do you have any idea how big office even is? I have Office 2K on this
> machine.
>
> 248 files. 20 folders for a total of 83,729,875 bytes.
>
> Office XP is a little bigger:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/285342
>
> Available Hard Disk Space
> The following table shows the default amount of space required for each
> edition of Office.
> Edition Approximate Disk Space Requirements*
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Standard 191 MB
>
> Professional 230 MB
>
> Professional 276 MB
> with FrontPage
> So yeah... with the 4-Gigs of free space installing 200-Megs of Office
> software isn't going to break the bank.Still better than the bloatware of
> OpenOffice:http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/s..._20.htmlSystem
> Requirements for OpenOffice.org 2At least 800 Mbytes available disk space
> for a default install (including a JRE) via download. After installation and
> deletion of temporary installation files, OpenOffice.org will use
> approximately 440 Mbytes disk space.
>

Wow. Where's Jim and Liarnut now? I wont bother to post the msgid of
Liarnut's "shrug, I dont think so buddy", but as usual he was making
things up with little, if any, knowledge of the subject OR the thread in
hand. A typical "new" Liarnut tactic.

norm wrote:

> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 04:18:21 GMT, Charlie Wilkes wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:28:54 -0500, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:35:07 GMT, Charlie Wilkes wrote:
>>>>> Just one cycle back in this thread you agreed the Eee PC is a nice
>>>>> machine.
>>>> It is.
>>>> Most people are wiping Linux and installing Windows on it though and
>>>> Asus is releasing a Windows version shortly.
>>> Bah. Where do you get this information? What version of Windows fits
>>> on
>>> a 4gb flash drive? And what is the payoff?
>>>
>>> Charlie
>>
>> It's all over the net.
>> Open your mind and you might find it.
>>
>> http://www.mahalo.com/Installing_Win...on_Asus_Eee_PC
>>
>>
http://www.eeeguides.com/2007/11/ins...usb-thumb.html
>>
>> and so forth....
>>
> Did you actually read the procedure? It might be a bit daunting for a
> windows user used to point and click. Also, considering the original
> cost of the unit and then adding in the cost of xp, one might as well
> buy a low end laptop from best buy. I just find it highly doubtful that
> it is "most people" wiping linux and installing xp. ymmv.
>
All my friends that have laptops have done just the opposite. They've wiped
Windoze off and installed Linux. That isn't a big sampling of course, but I
would find it hard to believe that there would be that many people running
the EeePC who'd want to do anything with it, other than installing a
different Linux distro on it, then the one that it comes with. Even those
folks running the old Jornada 720's are putting Linux on them and that is
certainly the distant prelude to the EeePC. :-)

Cheers.

--
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Proprietary Software: a 20th Century software business model.

Q: What OS is built for lusers?
A: Which one requires running lusermgr.msc to create them?

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On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:20:51 -0500, Troy Kirkland wrote:

> "Jim Richardson" wrote in message
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>> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:32:30 -0800,
>> Tim Smith wrote:
>>> In article ,
>>> Charlie Wilkes wrote:
>>>> > Well, the fact that Asus sells a Windows version right now in Japan,
>>>> > and
>>>> > has stated that they will release it in the US, are some big clues.
>>>> >
>>>> > XP easily fits on a 4 gig system.
>>>> >
>>>> Sure... get rid of the hibernation file, minimize restore points, make
>>>> sure you delete all the crap generated by Windows update... it can be
>>>> made to work with a bit of effort. Or you can run a Linux distro
>>>
>>> Nonsense. I checked my XP SP2 machine that I use for testing, and it is
>>> using under 2 gig for Windows. I put no special effort into making it
>>> small.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Does that include office?
>
> Do you have any idea how big office even is? I have Office 2K on this
> machine.
>
> 248 files. 20 folders for a total of 83,729,875 bytes.
>
> Office XP is a little bigger:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/285342
>
> Available Hard Disk Space
> The following table shows the default amount of space required for each
> edition of Office.
> Edition Approximate Disk Space Requirements*
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Standard 191 MB
>
> Professional 230 MB
>
> Professional 276 MB
> with FrontPage

On my system I have Microsoft Office XP Professional installed, no
Frontpage but Word, Excel, Powerpoint, MSOffice Tools and according to
Control Panel it is a whopping 147MB.

Seeing as my hard disk is over 400GB I'm not worried.



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Collector of soaps from around the globe.
Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots:
http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/

* norm peremptorily fired off this memo:

> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>
>> http://www.mahalo.com/Installing_Win...on_Asus_Eee_PC
>>
>> and so forth....
>>
> Did you actually read the procedure? It might be a bit daunting for a
> windows user used to point and click. Also, considering the original
> cost of the unit and then adding in the cost of xp, one might as well
> buy a low end laptop from best buy. I just find it highly doubtful that
> it is "most people" wiping linux and installing xp. ymmv.

Not on the Eee PC. Some have done it; Tom Shelton here saw one.

I wouldn't waste my time on installing XP on it.

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others.
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In article ,
Jim Richardson wrote:
> > Nonsense. I checked my XP SP2 machine that I use for testing, and it is
> > using under 2 gig for Windows. I put no special effort into making it
> > small.
> >
>
>
>
>
> Does that include office?

I don't have Office on there. OpenOffice, though, takes up around 300
MB, so XP + OpenOffice would easily fit in well under 4 gig. From what
others have said here, and on the web, Office and OpenOffice are not too
far apart in size, so I'd expect Office + XP to fit.

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On Feb 25, 4:32 pm, Tim Smith wrote:
> In article ,
> Charlie Wilkes wrote:
>
> > > Well, the fact that Asus sells a Windows version right now in Japan, and
> > > has stated that they will release it in the US, are some big clues.
>
> > > XP easily fits on a 4 gig system.
>
> > Sure... get rid of the hibernation file, minimize restore points, make
> > sure you delete all the crap generated by Windows update... it can be
> > made to work with a bit of effort. Or you can run a Linux distro
>
> Nonsense. I checked my XP SP2 machine that I use for testing, and it is
> using under 2 gig for Windows. I put no special effort into making it
> small.
>
> --
> --Tim Smith

Are you going just by the size of the windows directory and its
subdirectories, or are you also including your restore points and the
hibernation file if you use one?

I accept that it's possible, but it's enough of a project so I don't
see it as something the average consumer will do because he wets his
pants when he hears the word Linux. I also suspect that use of this
altered machine might present performance and stability issues with
500mb of RAM and < 2gb of drive available for temp files.

Charlie

In article
,
charlie_wilkes@users.easynews.com wrote:
> Are you going just by the size of the windows directory and its
> subdirectories, or are you also including your restore points and the
> hibernation file if you use one?
>
> I accept that it's possible, but it's enough of a project so I don't
> see it as something the average consumer will do because he wets his
> pants when he hears the word Linux. I also suspect that use of this
> altered machine might present performance and stability issues with
> 500mb of RAM and < 2gb of drive available for temp files.

Installing XP SP2 on a machine with a single 4 GB drive, rebooting once
after install, and then using Internet Explorer to browse a web page (to
make sure that the internet access is working), and then checking the
disk space, shows that 2.12 GB are used.

During the install, I let everything take its default value.

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* Tim Smith peremptorily fired off this memo:

> In article
> ,
> charlie_wilkes@users.easynews.com wrote:
>> Are you going just by the size of the windows directory and its
>> subdirectories, or are you also including your restore points and the
>> hibernation file if you use one?
>>
>> I accept that it's possible, but it's enough of a project so I don't
>> see it as something the average consumer will do because he wets his
>> pants when he hears the word Linux. I also suspect that use of this
>> altered machine might present performance and stability issues with
>> 500mb of RAM and < 2gb of drive available for temp files.
>
> Installing XP SP2 on a machine with a single 4 GB drive, rebooting once
> after install, and then using Internet Explorer to browse a web page (to
> make sure that the internet access is working), and then checking the
> disk space, shows that 2.12 GB are used.
>
> During the install, I let everything take its default value.

You might be able to pare down your Visual Studio .NET install to fit,
and have some room for a "Hello World" project, then.

Competition is good!

--
Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have
museums to document that.
-- Bill Gates, Speech at the Computer History Museum, as quoted in InfoWorld
magazine (October 2001)

Linonut writes:

> * Tim Smith peremptorily fired off this memo:
>
>> In article
>> ,
>> charlie_wilkes@users.easynews.com wrote:
>>> Are you going just by the size of the windows directory and its
>>> subdirectories, or are you also including your restore points and the
>>> hibernation file if you use one?
>>>
>>> I accept that it's possible, but it's enough of a project so I don't
>>> see it as something the average consumer will do because he wets his
>>> pants when he hears the word Linux. I also suspect that use of this
>>> altered machine might present performance and stability issues with
>>> 500mb of RAM and < 2gb of drive available for temp files.
>>
>> Installing XP SP2 on a machine with a single 4 GB drive, rebooting once
>> after install, and then using Internet Explorer to browse a web page (to
>> make sure that the internet access is working), and then checking the
>> disk space, shows that 2.12 GB are used.
>>
>> During the install, I let everything take its default value.
>
> You might be able to pare down your Visual Studio .NET install to fit,
> and have some room for a "Hello World" project, then.
>
> Competition is good!

Err, a while ago this was a machine for doing email and browsing the
web. Nice strawman Liarnut.

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On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:20:51 -0500,
Troy Kirkland wrote:
>
> "Jim Richardson" wrote in message
> news:lf4c95-akg.ln1@dragon.myth...
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>> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:32:30 -0800,
>> Tim Smith wrote:
>>> In article ,
>>> Charlie Wilkes wrote:
>>>> > Well, the fact that Asus sells a Windows version right now in Japan,
>>>> > and
>>>> > has stated that they will release it in the US, are some big clues.
>>>> >
>>>> > XP easily fits on a 4 gig system.
>>>> >
>>>> Sure... get rid of the hibernation file, minimize restore points, make
>>>> sure you delete all the crap generated by Windows update... it can be
>>>> made to work with a bit of effort. Or you can run a Linux distro
>>>
>>> Nonsense. I checked my XP SP2 machine that I use for testing, and it is
>>> using under 2 gig for Windows. I put no special effort into making it
>>> small.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Does that include office?
>
> Do you have any idea how big office even is? I have Office 2K on this
> machine.
>

No I don't. Hence the question. I don't need, or use MS-Office.


> 248 files. 20 folders for a total of 83,729,875 bytes.
>
> Office XP is a little bigger:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/285342
>
> Available Hard Disk Space
> The following table shows the default amount of space required for each
> edition of Office.
> Edition Approximate Disk Space Requirements*
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Standard 191 MB
>
> Professional 230 MB
>
> Professional 276 MB
> with FrontPage
> So yeah... with the 4-Gigs of free space installing 200-Megs of Office
> software isn't going to break the bank.Still better than the bloatware of
> OpenOffice:http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/s..._20.htmlSystem
> Requirements for OpenOffice.org 2At least 800 Mbytes available disk space
> for a default install (including a JRE) via download. After installation and
> deletion of temporary installation files, OpenOffice.org will use
> approximately 440 Mbytes disk space.
>

You don't have 4GB of free space,you have maybe 2.

Unless you think XP takes up Zero bytes of room?

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* Jim Richardson peremptorily fired off this memo:

>>> Does that include office?
>>
>> Do you have any idea how big office even is? I have Office 2K on this
>> machine.
>
> No I don't. Hence the question. I don't need, or use MS-Office.
>
>> 248 files. 20 folders for a total of 83,729,875 bytes.
>>
>> Office XP is a little bigger:
>> The following table shows the default amount of space required for each
>> edition of Office.
>> Edition Approximate Disk Space Requirements*
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> Standard 191 MB
>> Professional 230 MB
>> Professional 276 MB
>> with FrontPage

>> After installation and
>> deletion of temporary installation files, OpenOffice.org will use
>> approximately 440 Mbytes disk space.

$ du -ms /usr/lib/openoffice
239 /usr/lib/openoffice/

That's for OpenOffice 2.4 on Debian 32-bit.

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