[TriLUG] OT: hardware question

Andrew Perrin andrew_perrin at unc.edu
Tue Mar 26 09:22:13 EST 2002


oh, I forgot: window manager is fvwm2, about as lightweight as you can get
AFAIK.

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Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin at unc.edu - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
 Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
      269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA


On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Chris Hedemark wrote:

> JD writes:
> > Considering the price old edo simms (I don't know, but I imagine they are
> > expensive), I would venture to say
> > you will be better offspending money on a new cpu.
> 
> Or just be more realistic about what will run on this iron.
> 
> Some of the apps you mentioned are clearly meant for bigger iron than this.
> I think a lot of newer apps are written by fresh young programmers who have
> no concept of writing tight efficient code, and that have an attitude that
> hardware is cheap.  KDE, Gnome, Evolution, and Mozilla are great examples of
> this.
> 
> On the flip side you can select applications that may not be as feature rich
> but will effectively act like a CPU upgrade on the machine.  For example,
> instead of running KDE or Gnome, try Window Maker or icewm.  Instead of
> running Evolution try pine.  As for Mozilla, well, to be honest I haven't
> found a web browser yet on Unix that I like.  The feature rich browsers tend
> to be fat and slow, and crash often.  The lightweight browsers tend to have
> trouble rendering many popular sites.  You may be stuck with bloatware on
> the browser front.
> 
> So much attention is paid towards scaling Linux up onto bigger and better
> hardware.  IMHO more attention needs to be paid to scaling down as well.  If
> Linux is to "take over the world" it needs to run on machines that the rest
> of the world runs.  Remember, outside of the few highly developed nations,
> computers are a very rare and expensive commodity.   Our public schools are
> literally throwing out machines that these people would have to pay a few
> months wages for.
> 
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