On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 18:28, Cian Duffy wrote: Thats getting interesting. I liked the single button mice part.. how true...
All I have USB is a mouse. I don't need automatic stuffs that much. As for mounting medias I wrote my own mini scripts. Auto-mounting have always been annoying AFAIAC and I disable them as much as I can. I want my computer to do what I am asking it. I don't want machines that think 'on their own'. That said, kudzu service is deactivated because It kept changing fstab entries from '/dev/cdrom/' (what i want) to '/dev/hda' (what kudzy want) and such. > 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' > > > _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
