Re: Software bloat

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Daniel C. von Asmuth wrote:

> OK, recently we tried to do some Linux on desktop promotion. We had rigged
> up some PCs (1000 MHz, 128 MB) with Fedora 1, KDE 3.1, Mozilla 1.5 or so, 
> OpenOffice 1.1, Gimp something. This is about as Windowsish as it gets. 

When you can get Celeron 2.4G/128M machines can easily be had for 331GBP
inc., or Celeron 2.5G/256M machines can easily be had for 401GBP inc., why
did you pick such a low spec? Windows XP wouldn't ship on much less these
days, so why hobble a modern desktop Linux distro with a spec. from 2001 or
earlier? Run software that's contemporaneous to the hardware you're running
it on.

More memory, in particular, will make a huge difference. OO can use ~150M
when it's running. I'd recommend that any desktop machine, running Linux or
XP, has 256M or more these days. It's not like memory's very expensive these
days (upgrading from 128M to 256M costs 18GBP inc. or less).

Additionally, did you enable hard disc DMA? This makes a huge difference to
interactive performance, IME.

> Kind regards,
> Daniel von Asmuth

Best Regards,
Alex.
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