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The Fast-Food Syndrome: The Linux Platform is Getting Fat
Zombie9920:
Or in other words it is getting more and more bloated. Don't you guys criticize MS for bloat?
Myself, I don't think bloat is a big deal because drive space is less than $1 per gig nowadays. Modern CPU's can run the bloat without any trouble. Bloat = more features(even with MS software). Bloat is only a problem on ancient computers.
http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7324
[ June 24, 2004: Message edited by: Viper ]
Refalm:
Yes, Red Hat is quite amazing at boosting the minimum system requirements.
WMD:
1. Screw FC2, it's a lousy release.
2. My FC1 with XFce 4.0.3 boots up into 107MB RAM. Not great, but ok for a Redhat release.
3. I'd say Slackware could really help in this case. All that's hard about it is setting it up - actually using it is fine.
[ June 27, 2004: Message edited by: WMD ]
Refalm:
quote:WMD: I'd say Slackware could really help in this case. All that's hard about it is setting it up - actually using it is fine.
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I agree. XFCE, Gnome or KDE make Slackware real easy to use.
worker201:
Yeah, I wonder if your koan 'bloat = new features' is the whole story. I kinda think bloat is bigger file size with no added features. Occasionally the file will be bigger, and you have less features. I haven't kept track of the changing size of core Linux packages, but I would guess that they haven't changed much at all - there's just more of them. No comment on how Windows has changed from release to release.
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