This one time, at band camp, Karl Clements wrote: >this is true, it can just be highly annoying getting a call from someone who can't >work out how to check their email.
Welcome to the real world, buddy. >2k ran better on this than slack8 with kde, although that was easy fixed with a >change of wm We need numbers, not idle rhetoric. I'm not going to believe or disbelieve you until some proof can be provided. >X is good, but it could be better look at the size of it its bloated willow% ls -l /bin/ls -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 43916 Nov 29 23:19 /bin/ls* willow% ls -l /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1507532 Oct 26 00:28 /usr/bin/X11/XFree86* OH MY GOD!!! XFree86 IS SO BLOATED!! I'll ask again, when was the last time you looked at the X protocol specification? Do you realise how much an X server actually does? Have you looked at the resident size of the windos GDI? XFree86 is big because it *does things*. Let's look at running processes, shall we? % top PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND [snip] 14576 jaq 9 0 29868 29M 1464 S 0.0 7.7 0:08 mutt 511 jaq 9 0 23504 15M 4308 S 0.0 4.0 0:35 xmms 403 root 14 -10 73708 8948 3612 S < 0.9 2.3 106:23 XFree86 346 jaq 9 0 1720 1632 1540 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 zsh HOLY CRAP! XFree86 HAS A RESIDENT SIZE OF 8 MEGS! NO WAY! >"Everyone is stupid, its just the degree that varies" No comment. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg <Rafter> i think i went to one of their gigs at st ives, but never acutally went inside <beeno> that is so punk -- #sodfest97 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
