On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 20:47, Daevid Vincent wrote: > Of course TWM is going to run faster, but it looks like ass! > > You guys are skirting around the problem and trying to cover up the fact > that KDE/Gnome or any other 'pretty' window manager is going to take > resources be they memory, cpu, hd or gpu. Sheeeit, a minimum XP machine > these days is like 384MB RAM, 40GB HD, CPU > PIII 800Mhz and 32MB-128MB > video card. > The new Reiser (sp?) Filesystem will be released this month and I have heard that it speeds things up considerably (I've never tried it). One of the things that I have noticed is that downloads are considerably faster in Linux than Windows. This is particularly noticeable with small files.
Without a GUI, Linux is spectacularly efficient. It seems to do a much better job of knowing what to keep in the swap vs. memory. The native applications remind me of how much got done with 64K in CP/M. And it NEVER crashes. BSD - what's that? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
