On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 06:27:07AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Interesting editorial from osnews found on /. > > "The Fast-Food Syndrome: The Linux Platform is > Getting Fat" > link: > http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7324&page=1 > > excerpt: "It's a very sad state of affairs. > Linux was supposed to be the liberating OS, > disruptive technology that would change the > playing field for computing. It was supposed to > breathe new life into PCs and give third-world > countries new opportunities. It was supposed to > avoid the Microsoftian upgrade treadmill; > instead, it's rushing after Moore's Law. Such a > shame." > > The Title is misleading. The article is actually > talking about the desktop apps not the server > applications.But other than that, I agree with > the guy. What do you think?
Same topic on the nlug list. It's like this. If you want the latest KDE/Gnome and all that, then yes, it's bloated. And that's what I use. I have 1GB of memory, and a fast cpu, I can deal with it. But Linux will still run on much older hardware just fine. Maybe not the latest RH or Suse out of the box, but with a little tweaking it can be done. Just use a light-weight window manager (of the twm genre), make sure no extra daemons are running, and use lightweight apps. Make X run at 8-bit color, and use an accelerated driver if one exists for your vide hardware. Most video hardware still in use, anything VLB or better, will certainly have 2-D accelerations for moving windows around and stuff without much bothering the cpu. My first use of X was on a VAX/VMS workstation that was unable to put out even 1 MIP. It worked fine. 10 years ago, I was using a DEC MIPS-bases workstation running at 33MHz with 32MB of memory. Again, it worked fine. I'd typically run xclock, xeyes, 4 xterms, and later on xmosaic. What more do you need? :) Michael -- Michael Darrin Chaney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.michaelchaney.com/ -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
