linuxcaffe; distros and desktops

[Walter Dnes]

On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 02:04:42AM -0400, Robert Brockway wrote
> On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Taavi Burns wrote:
> 
> > The GIMP works wonderfully over a full 10Mb/s link.  But if you stick
> > 20 clients on an 802.11b wireless network...  Perhaps some 802.11g
> > cards would be in order anyway. ;)
> 
> I think we still disagree over how much X data can be reasonably
> pushed over a broadcast network.  I've seen 30 or more Xterminals
> in simultaneous use go fine on a 10Mb/sec hub.

  Another thing to remember is the difference between KDE/Gnome
*DESKTOPS* versus KDE/Gnome *APPLICATIONS*.  My Dell Dimension XPS 450
(yes 450 mhz) with 128 megs of RAM had its 5th birthday in September.
It is absolutely brutal with a KDE or Gnome *DESKTOP*, taking forever
to come up, and then moving in slow motion.

  However, if I install KDE and Gnome, and use BlackBox as the WM, it's
quite snappy.  And yes, I *CAN* use Gnome and KDE *APPLICATIONS* like
Gnumeric, gnome-panel, AbiWord, Gimp, etc.  I put icons on the panel,
and I can quickly call up often-used apps.

  To get the most out of my system, I use CRUX linux ( http://crux.nu ).
It's lightweight, BSD-flavoured, and their "ports" system consists of
build-scripts.  Calling an install script results in automatically
downloading the tarball and building it locally.  The defaults are
"-O2 -march=i686", so I get as much performance as possible.

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