Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Michael Schreckenbauer <grimlog@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev + /usr
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:02:11
Message-Id: 1341055.WVNvW3y88n@pc
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev + /usr by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 On Monday, 19. September 2011 19:43:50 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
2 > Am Montag 19 September 2011, 19:25:28 schrieb Michael Schreckenbauer:
3 > > On Monday, 19. September 2011 18:36:18 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
4 > > > Am Montag 19 September 2011, 16:41:08 schrieb Michael Schreckenbauer:
5 > > > > On Monday, 19. September 2011 16:22:31 Alan McKinnon wrote:
6 > > > > > On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:30:41 +0200
7 > > > > >
8 > > > > > Nicolas Sebrecht <nsebrecht@×××××.fr> wrote:
9 > > > > > > The 17/09/11, pk wrote:
10 > > > > > > > dbus is installed in my system, but only because I
11 > > > > > > > run
12 > > > > > > > Xfce4
13 > > > > > > > (I
14 > > > > > > > am
15 > > > > > > > thinking of installing something else due to it's
16 > > > > > > > becoming
17 > > > > > > > bloated
18 > > > > > > > just like gnome). And I have "-dbus" in my global
19 > > > > > > > make.conf.
20 > > > > > > >
21 > > > > > > > PS. I am quite astonished at the fact that I have a
22 > > > > > > > computer
23 > > > > > > > that is
24 > > > > > > > _way_ faster than the first machine I installed
25 > > > > > > > GNU/Linux
26 > > > > > > > (an
27 > > > > > > > Amiga
28 > > > > > > > 4000 with a 68040 cpu at 40Mhz) on but the
29 > > > > > > > "experience"
30 > > > > > > > is
31 > > > > > > > still
32 > > > > > > > the same; it takes about the same time to boot, the
33 > > > > > > > same
34 > > > > > > > time
35 > > > > > > > (or
36 > > > > > > > even slower) to load a program. It seems the faster
37 > > > > > > > the
38 > > > > > > > computer
39 > > > > > > > the more I have to wait for it to finish some task.
40 > > > > > > > Contradictory,
41 > > > > > > > no? Wonder why that is... (bloat?).
42 > > > > > >
43 > > > > > > Believe it or not but I bet you're not doing the same
44 > > > > > > tasks
45 > > > > > > with
46 > > > > > > your
47 > > > > > > modern machine and could just not run the user-end
48 > > > > > > software
49 > > > > > > you
50 > > > > > > use
51 > > > > > > today on a Amiga 4000 with a 68040 cpu at 40Mhz because
52 > > > > > > they
53 > > > > > > learn
54 > > > > > > new
55 > > > > > > feature since then.
56 > > > > > :
57 > > > > > :-) Example:
58 > > > > > Try run a browser on that Amiga. I doubt it would even
59 > > > > > manage to
60 > > > > > display the Gentoo logo at http://www.gentoo.org.
61 > > > >
62 > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origyn_Web_Browser
63 > > >
64 > > > and I am sure that it will display pngs and jpegs with full colours
65 > > > just fine. I am sure displaying 2 or 4 MP pictures will be working
66 > > > great. Just
67 > > > like the mpeg4 you are trying to watch. Or the ogv.
68 > >
69 > > I don't think so :)
70 > > But it is a web-browser, that runs on classic amiga os and I really
71 > > think, that it can display http://www.gentoo.org just fine.
72 >
73 > so can lynx. Does it make it usefull with todays internet? There are more
74 > pages than just gentoo.org - The Sun for example or CNN or other high
75 > quality sites.
76
77 Yes, I agree. You seem to miss the point of my post completely.
78
79 Best,
80 Michael