My point is not that bloat does not exist, but that it is not in unicode. You explained many windows-specific foibles (the FS block size is an issue with any reasonable file system, and hard drives are very cheap these days). Any text based linux distro, even with unicode on, will be extremely fast on even a 133 MHz 486SX with 64MB ram. By all means, eliminate bloat, but I think you will have a difficult time installing & maintaining an ANSI-only system, for little benefit.
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Dos-Man 64 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Jul 23, 9:33 am, Adragontattoo <[email protected]> wrote: > > with the relatively low cost of computers and especially HDDs and RAM > > now, Unicode would be the least of my concerns > > Nevertheless, it still should be a concern. Software is getting slower > at a much more rapid pace than hardware is getting faster. Any gains > have been negated. I've heard from reliable sources that vista is much > slower than xp, despite being newer and often running on newer > hardware. > > > -- Daniel --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
