Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev + /usr

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

Am Montag 19 September 2011, 16:41:08 schrieb Michael Schreckenbauer:
> On Monday, 19. September 2011 16:22:31 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:30:41 +0200
> >
> > Nicolas Sebrecht <nsebrecht@×××××.fr> wrote:
> > > The 17/09/11, pk wrote:
> > > > dbus is installed in my system, but only because I run Xfce4 (I
> > > > am
> > > > thinking of installing something else due to it's becoming
> > > > bloated
> > > > just like gnome). And I have "-dbus" in my global make.conf.
> > > >
> > > > PS. I am quite astonished at the fact that I have a computer
> > > > that is
> > > > _way_ faster than the first machine I installed GNU/Linux (an
> > > > Amiga
> > > > 4000 with a 68040 cpu at 40Mhz) on but the "experience" is still
> > > > the same; it takes about the same time to boot, the same time
> > > > (or
> > > > even slower) to load a program. It seems the faster the computer
> > > > the more I have to wait for it to finish some task.
> > > > Contradictory,
> > > > no? Wonder why that is... (bloat?).
> > >
> > > Believe it or not but I bet you're not doing the same tasks with
> > > your
> > > modern machine and could just not run the user-end software you use
> > > today on a Amiga 4000 with a 68040 cpu at 40Mhz because they learn
> > > new
> > > feature since then.
> > :
> > :-)  Example:
> > Try run a browser on that Amiga. I doubt it would even manage to
> > display the Gentoo logo at http://www.gentoo.org.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origyn_Web_Browser

and I am sure that it will display pngs and jpegs with full colours just fine.
I am sure displaying 2 or 4 MP pictures will be working great. Just like the 
mpeg4 you are trying to watch. Or the ogv.

>
> > And forget all about playing music.

well, the amiga can play mp3. But don't expect it to be usable for anything 
else while doing so.

So watching a music video while having a douzend wikipedia-tabs open and a 
mailbox with 60000 mails replying to one?

No, not really.


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