Fedora Woes

[Tim Writer]

"Julian C. Dunn - Lists" <lists-JN5fZfbfKAtWk0Htik3J/w==@public.gmane.org> writes:

> On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 11:44, Tim Writer wrote:
> 
> > Don't get me started on Nautilus.  For me, the introductio of Nautilus was
> > the beginning of the end for GNOME.  With Nautilus, the GNOME project strayed
> > so far away from the Unix philosophy, esp. the idea that programs should do
> > one thing well, you'd think Microsoft was running the project!  Try
> > describing Nautilus in one brief, understandable sentence.  Here's mine:
> > 
> >    Nautilus: the all singing, all dancing, swiss army chainsaw that eats
> >    memory for lunch and serves no useful purpose whatsoever.
> 
> Hold on a moment -- doesn't that describe Emacs?

It used to with one important exception.  Whatever else you may say about it,
Emacs is a superb programmers' editor.  What is Nautilus good for?

There are a lot of funny acronyms for Emacs, one is:

    Eight megabytes and constantly swapping

Of course, by today's standards, Emacs is a model of efficiency.  I ran
xemacs under a pre 1.0 Linux kernel on a 486/33 with 8MB RAM and I was happy.
In contrast, the RedHat 8 installer wouldn't run to completion, even in text
mode, on a PII 300 with 64MB RAM.  When I finally did get the system up, the
RH up2date icon in the task bar was consuming over 16MB RAM just to let me
know there were no updates available!

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