heh tinyxp is small yes.... but maybe you should try googling a little thing called Linux


be prepared to be blown the fuck away

i understand your concern climbtree but i used tinyxp and minixp for a while. at first it seems really cool and you are like WOW PERFORMANCE but it really really is negligible. you have THREE FUCKING GIGABYTES of ram and you are worried because your os uses 200 megs? stop fiddling with a crippled OS man and just get normal XP! you will NOT experience any slowdown, dude. i have 2 gigs at home and at work, and my OS NEVER EVER gets in my way.

It takes a little longer to boot up (this is 99% because of services too, btw. There are lots of guides on the internet about how to disable a lot of unnecessary services and this will have the MOST dramatic increase in system performance. Just a little hint, thats basically what tiny xp is: disabled/deleted services, and NOTHING MORE! Disabling DHCP can knock 15-30 seconds off your boot time instantly.) than tinyxp, but how often do you boot your computer? this one has been going for over a week now. There is no reason to reboot your computer more than once a week TOPS. In fact the only reason i ever reboot is if someting requires me to (installing a program/updating OS).

Basically dude this is futile and if you are interested this much in getting good performance, stop messing with a crippled OS and get some linux distro because you will have 10x more fun and learn 100x more than just getting a stripped version of a bloated os.

Btw look into services man i am dead serious that that is all tinyxp really is. There are lots of things deleted which save you disk space, but do not increase PERFORMANCE at all. Only the disabling/deleting of services increases performance.

ubuntu is the worst linux distro fyi its basically windows for unix aka its for pussies. dont tell people you use linux if you use ubuntu.

I like SuSE and believe it or not i actually like ubuntu. im not a HARDCORE LINUX GUY at all and have only really used a small handful of distros (the "most" hardcore i used was freebsd which made me feel very cool for a few days) (in fact i think linux fanboys are as bad as mac fanboys). my point was more that you shouldn't go around sayin g"heh.....i use linux. im a ubuntu guy."

but really i was being a dick so sorry jmickle just old dickhead gr over here! dont listen to me! the last ubuntu i used was 7 though.
i dont mean to be condescending at all and im not assuming you dont know anything about computers, but I think you are mixing up "bloat" with "diverse functionality". the reason OSes these days (yes even including xp) are "bloated" is not because they toss in random unnecessary shit (which they do) but because they do a LOT of stuff. they are constantly doing things in the background. i'm as much against unnecessary bloat as the next guy, fuck im a programmer!

but dude, i have a sql server running on my box, and always a visual studio open (right now i have 2 visual studios both running a project!!), outlook open, instant messenger open, i have an RDP session open, mirc, foobar, firefox with... 8 tabs open, a vpn client, SVN client, with a total 1400 megs used out of 2 gigs. 500 of that is firefox! another 450 of that is visual studio! tha tmeans EVERYTHING ELSE, INCLUDING THE OS, is using around 400 megabytes of ram. I wouldn't call that bloat, would you?

also, for the record, why have 3 gigs of ram if you never use more than 1/5 of it?

also i find the computer white noise to be relaxing and i cant sleep WITHOUT my computer on.

most of the time i actually put episodes of futurama/the office/south park/something else on low with the monitor off because it helps me go to sleep.

your ears are meant to rest!!!!

i hate kde so i dont like suse much NOW,