Re: Software bloat

Thus quoth Alex Butcher on Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:40:36AM +0000:
> 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.

Linux used to work on a i386, so how come progress translates to slower soft-
ware instead of faster? I used to blame it on an Intel-Microsoft conspiracy.
You want a modern Linux because it fixes a number of important bugs (mostly
for security reasons).

I am currently working on an Intel 80186 with 512kB of RAM and less flash.
It runs RTOS (which is similar to MS-DOS, with some features removed).

Surely, there are times when you want to run your programs on the fastest
supercomputer in the World, but you hardly need all that power on your desk.

Kind regards,


Daniel von Asmuth
 

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