On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 14:13, Piero Piutti wrote: > On Tuesday 08 October 2002 20:50, Todd Lyons wrote: > > > Sounds possible, but will it run in the same amount of RAM or will it > > require 3 times the RAM? This program runs fairly fast on an Athlon 1 > > Gig CPU with 384 Megs of RAM. Have you tried it on a P2 333 with 128I > wanted to say that there is absolutely no intention to be harsh or to > diminish the work of MDK developers in what I'm saying - > > Megs of RAM? Now make it require even more RAM and watch it crawl. > > I used to run the old rpmdrake on a 128 Mb Ram Celeron 700 (which is not a > lightning) and it worked just fine. > > I understand your concerns about writing software that can be used by the > widest spectrum of platforms and users, but a 333 P2 is a five year old > machine. A bit too old, innit? > > Wishing to have MDK 9.0 + KDE 3 (or Gnome 2) and maybe even OpenOffice run > smoothly on a five years old PC is a bit like trying to run Windows 98 and MS > Office 97 on a 8 Megs 486 DX... maybe not impossible, but... is it worth?
Actually considering that the laptop is the size of a videocassete and under a pound... yes it is I do and it works fine.... (Need to switch it to linux soon been to lazy.) > > > Every design comes with advantages and disadvantages. There's no way to > > meet every single need with optimum settings. > > Right and agreeable. But I still keep my opinion on obsolete hardware - how > reasonable is to try to have a 2002 OS running smoothly on a 1995-1996 PC at > all costs, i.e. giving up useability for EVERYONE only to try not to cut off > a few users with very old machines? > > > If you don't like it, you are welcome to take the old rpmdrake and > > maintain it yourself. > > I really wish I could contribute with code, but I have no coding skills and I > have no time to learn how to write software from scratch. Right now, all that > I can do is to report bugs I come across or give my feedback about apps (and, > yeah, buy a Power Pack, of course!). > > > With Linux, you have that choice. > > That's what I like about Linux :-) > > I know I come a bit late to complain about new features in MDK 9.0 but I have > decided to completely switch to Linux only a few months ago and I wasn't > aware about the discussion going on on the Cooker list about the new > features implemented in MDK 9.0. > Should join it soon to voice out my thoughts at the right stage of development > and influence the shaping-up of MDK 10.0! :-) > > Before quitting, I wanted to say that there is absolutely no intention to > diminish the work of MDK developers in what I've said - I really appreciate > what you guys/ladies do and there are no enough words to thank the people > that bring us such a great OS for free. It's just that Mandrake is brilliant > and I simply would like it to be better and better - I felt that the new > rpmdrake (and a few other things) didn't go in this direction, that's it, but > I understand your points/concerns even if I don't always agree with them. > > Take care, keep up the great job, > > -- > Piero Piutti > ----------- > Ticket to Ride - The Unofficial Ride Website: http://www.mareasub.it/ride > > Message mailed with: KMail 1.4.3 ~ KDE 3.0.3 ~ Mandrake Linux 9.0 > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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