On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Digby Tarvin wrote: > I like modest hardware because it promotes efficient code. And the > performance is actually perfectly find for most of the software > development I do. The only time it feels slow is when I use > crypto software like ssh or large applications like netscape.
Funny - most people would consider the GNOME desktop or OO to be large applications these days... > My gentoo system, on the other hand, has a Tyan motherboard with > dual 800MHz processors - not the top of the line these days, but > it still feels rediculously fast compared to my antique.. I have four servers with Tyan board (dual Athlon) that run Gentoo very well. Tyan have a quad-Opteron board Ive been drooling over but the price tag is 4 figures :-) > Besides, I can remember when 'ram expandable to 1K' was > a feature... First computer I ever used was a Sinclair ZX80 (1K RAM). -- -- [email protected] mailing list
