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From: Michael Schreckenbauer <grimlog@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev + /usr
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:42:54
Message-Id: 3364181.6HemjMXEQU@pc
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev + /usr by Alan McKinnon
1 On Monday, 19. September 2011 16:22:31 Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:30:41 +0200
3 >
4 > Nicolas Sebrecht <nsebrecht@×××××.fr> wrote:
5 > > The 17/09/11, pk wrote:
6 > > > dbus is installed in my system, but only because I run Xfce4 (I am
7 > > > thinking of installing something else due to it's becoming bloated
8 > > > just like gnome). And I have "-dbus" in my global make.conf.
9 > > >
10 > > > PS. I am quite astonished at the fact that I have a computer that is
11 > > > _way_ faster than the first machine I installed GNU/Linux (an Amiga
12 > > > 4000 with a 68040 cpu at 40Mhz) on but the "experience" is still
13 > > > the same; it takes about the same time to boot, the same time (or
14 > > > even slower) to load a program. It seems the faster the computer
15 > > > the more I have to wait for it to finish some task. Contradictory,
16 > > > no? Wonder why that is... (bloat?).
17 > >
18 > > Believe it or not but I bet you're not doing the same tasks with your
19 > > modern machine and could just not run the user-end software you use
20 > > today on a Amiga 4000 with a 68040 cpu at 40Mhz because they learn new
21 > > feature since then.
22 > :
23 > :-) Example:
24 > Try run a browser on that Amiga. I doubt it would even manage to
25 > display the Gentoo logo at http://www.gentoo.org.
26
27 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origyn_Web_Browser
28
29 > And forget all about playing music.
30
31 Best,
32 Michael

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev + /usr Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>