Theres another issue here - Bloat. I never used YDL3 because I never had recent PPC hardware until a few months ago - my Apple hardware line stopped abruptly before the G3. So I dunno what it had in it
But YDL4 has Kudzu, and due to having GNOME available, presumably has Hal and DBUS. It has to have some kind of hotplug manager for USB devices and the like. All of these start to add serious overhead to the system. KDE has something which scans for inserted CD's, which it might not have had in YDL3. Something constantly scanning for new disks can seriously slow down disk I/O. Unfortunately, bloat, extra layers between the user and the hardware, etc are what we pay for for usability, particularly on a UNIX system. Many of us here could live with mounting CD's manually and modprobing in drivers for newly inserted hardware, but new users cannot, particularly not the stereotypical MacOS user (the mice have one button for a reason). Progress. Its a bitch. Cian On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 18:17:45 -0500, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew, > > I have also witnessed similar behavior: > > (1) 2.4.6 does not appear to multi-task as well as 2.4.x > [G4-silver with dual 533MHz] > > (2) graphics is notably slower. > > (3) Intensive I/O loads/swamps the system. > For example, unpack a huge tarball in one window and try to edit a file > in another window. > > -Joseph > > ============================================================================ > > > On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 17:42, Andrew wrote: > > I need and want thoughts from the best fellows out there. > > Some will remember that I complained my system were behaving strangely: > > -- > joseph_sacco[at]comcast[dot]net > > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com' > -- --------------------------- "We're busy running out of time" Bernard Sumner, 1993 _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
