[Disclaimer: I'm being a Devil's Advocate here. I'm all for the Linux ] On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 17:15:03 +0800, Zak B. Elep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, what can we do to remove this 'fat'? Probably the quick and dirty > way is to strip a running system of this excess baggage: unneeded > apps, tools, games(!) and other stuff. With package managers getting > better nowadays, this seems to be the easiest way to get Linux lean > and mean ;) For the more sophisticated, turning off daemons and > long-running processes are even better ideas. However, the real
The point of the article was that, as a point of comparison, out of the box (more or less), XP performs better than a Linux desktop, also, on a feature-by-feature comparison (i.e. with the same services and capabilities and, yes, eye candy), an XP desktop will be faster and responsive compared to the a Linux desktop. So, this is not an option. Just as there are ways to tune a Windows XP box, there are ways to tune a Linux box-- but that's not the point. > solution would be to inform people of the hows (and whys) of the Un*x > system and its structure as opposed to Windows (and perhaps other > OSes). That way, people would begin to understand the little > 'eccentricites' that pervade each OS, and (hopefully) make their own > decisions as to fixing, tuning and customizing their Linux system. Again, the question was "out of the box" experience. For example, why does Linux seem to want to swap out my apps immediately? Yes, I know about 2.6's /proc/sys/vm/swappiness, but the behavior "out of the box" is perceived to be 'wrong'. There are as many reasons for doing it that way, as there are reasons for *not* doing it that way and, IMO, neither side is right nor wrong. > > I was fortunate enough to be aware of one thing: > DOCUMENTATION. doc-linux-* and the rest stashed in /usr/share/doc/ are > lifesavers. USE THEM ;) They'll save you more than an apt-get or a > full reload: rtfm, rtfm, rtfm. <stereotype>And most people will expect that the system will JUST WORK without having to RTFM. "Windows JUST WORKS (almost, barely, kinda). OS X JUST WORKS (hell yeah). Linux JUST... err... RTFM?"</stereotype> (Again, read my disclaimer) -- JM Ibanez http://www.livejournal.com/~jmibanez/ http://www.mycgiserver.com/~butiki/ -- 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
