D. Michael McIntyre-3 wrote: > > I've actually been finding that the bar keeps going higher over time, not > really due to anything we're doing, but the general complexity of keeping > everything else happy, which is not really living up to the promise of > getting easier over time. > As I said earlier, there's no argument from me on RG devt direction so this post is just so you know where I'm coming from.
Your comment about the bar continually getting higher is exactly why I'm enjoying using an ultra-lean distro. I've become totally sick of my XP getting slower and slower and a light distro like Puppy is something of a revelation. For me, it's nothing to do with using out of date hardware. It's about liberating whatever hardware you have to do what it was designed for. Layer upon layer of badly written cludge has made my life an absolute sodding misery at times and using something fast and responsive like Puppy running in RAM is a joy. I haven't used RG extensively yet but have had audio tracks, midi tracks and Hydrogen all running with low latency and no problems - I've only got 1GB of RAM but the OS takes less than 300MB of that and that includes the filesystem! I have other reasons to be interested in small footprint OSs as my business is in the mobile phone arena but that's another story. Did you know Trolltech were acquired by Nokia? I didn't. Anyway, I digress. There are downsides to lean distros and I'll bow to your greater experience and concede I may well be wasting my time. I've just completed the build of QT4 from source and now I need to find somewhere to put the 2.6GB that has resulted ... ... guess I'll have to setup a swapfile or something .... Fortunately, I've got 250GB of external harddrive arriving tomorrow especially for my new found hobby! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Interested-in-contributing-tp21270929p21301559.html Sent from the Rosegarden - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
