Slo ...... w PC

[Robin Laing]

Douglas Furlong wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 14:56, Ankit Malik wrote:
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> Not that this helps you much, but you may find it entertaining...
> 
> http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7324
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This is a good post.  It is one of the things that I liked about 
previous versions of Linux.  Running on older hardware.  With FC2, it 
looks like that won't be possible.

Now the article does attribute alot of code being written in a hurry 
to meet a demand but that does not help the growth of Linux if Linux 
is slower than Windows boxes.

Looking at Mozilla, it is getting faster with each upgrade.

It was an issue with Windows development as well.  It was being called 
Bloatware for ages.  Alot has to do with deveolpers that write great 
code but forget about older machines, as stated in the article.

Of course this is also evident in WWW pages that reqire broadband 
connections.  I know people that are still stuck with 33.6 modem 
connections.

Developers need to think of speeding up applications before adding 
more features.

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Robin Laing