Re: Software bloat

Aldus quoth Dexter Filmore on Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 05:17:10PM +0100:
> 
> 128MB is sub-standard. There isn't any miracle about KDE or OO being slow with
> such an relict. 256MB is minimum on Linux as well as on Win, no Pentium5 6GHz
> will help you here.
> Besides: OO is shoddy when you try setting up a printer and print. I got a HP
> LJ4 whcih is well supported and spadmin still gave me hell. (What on earth is
> the command line for cups?!)

The minimum requirements for Linux are an i386 processor with 2 MB or RAM and
some 10 MB of disk. (you would need a pretty old version for this to work).
I suppose anything that requires 256 MB for any lesser task than high-resolu-
tion climate modelling is itself substandard. (for Windows 4 MB is recommended).

Now suppose you had a box with eight Pentium 5 processors @6 GHz, 16 GB of RAM,
1 TB of U-320 RAID-5 disk storage and dual 10Gbit/s Ethernet, how many simul-
taneous users with OO 1.1 would this be able to support with reasonable per-
formance (such as responding to keystrokes and mouse moves within 1 sec)?

merry tuXmas, eep, eep, eep.


Daniel




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