[CLUE-Talk] The Fast-Food Syndrome: The Linux Platform is Getting Fat, a comment by Bob Marr

[Angelo Bertolli]

>The problem isn't Linux itself. You can build the 2.6 kernel on a 386 as
>well as any modern machine (I have an IBM that I'll be installing Gentoo on
>as soon as I can get it to boot up properly again). As you noted, apps
>opening in KDE are slow because of KDE. Same with apps opening in GNOME
>being slower because of GNOME. You still have your minimal window managers
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Well of course emacs probably takes 1 - 2 seconds to load even in the 
console ;)