On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 11:40, Javier Gostling wrote: > > It will depend on the specific situation. Compression will do lots of > good for bandwidth scarce situations, but on a LAN or standalone system > it will just waste CPU.
This is so lame. Any PC less than 2-3 years old and not being used as a server (which should not be running X anyway) has so many spare CPU cycles that the amount taken to compress the stream will be trivial. With today's CPUs there is no valid argument against compression. As one PC pundit wrote: "anything over 500MHz is for bragging rights, only". - rick warner -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
