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

Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. jnagyjr at joseph-a-nagy-jr.homelinux.org
Fri Jun 11 05:54:56 MDT 2004


On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 10:54:10PM -0400, Angelo Bertolli wrote the following:
> 
> >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
> >
> > 
> >
> Well of course emacs probably takes 1 - 2 seconds to load even in the 
> console ;)

Possibly but I use vim and mutt so I wouldn't know. ;)

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