On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 7:58 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.
Another note on the unicode front... I seem to recall any text processing will handle ASCII just fine, without the additional overhead associated with multi-byte characters. Since all the basic ascii characters leave the high bit at 0, they could optimize the encoding so that virtually no overhead is incurred when dealing with plain ASCII. And since the encoding is done this way, the only file size bloat is from actually using non-ascii characters. I would ignore the unicode requirement and just look for a minimalist distribution. I've heard a lot of really good things about Xubuntu, an XFCE oriented Ubuntu derivative. ~Ryan -- http://rmgraham.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/rmgraham --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
