Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 29, 2005 11:00 PM
I have not experienced the half speed thing, in fact I find Mepis reasonably snappy on older equipment, although it flat out sucks off of the CD.
All linux is slower than it needs to be because most linux packagers think it should be optimized to be a work station not a desktop, that preloading, caching and prelinking (for example) are evil. They don't want some desktop application taking up clock cycles and memory when they kick off a compile. Well I don't compile programs and I don't want clock cycles or memory sitting around idle when it could be waiting eagerly to draw a window or open a spreadsheet.
That's changing and I would expect in the next year or so to see an explosion of faster booting linux distros with faster desktop responsiveness (SUPER SuSE is one such project).
I agree that its a good thing to have the evil non-free software pre-installed. I use mp3, windows media files, flash media, java etc every day. Kudos to Warren.
The free software Puritans are certainly entitled to their view, but those of us who prefer that stuff are entitled to ours as well.
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Re:great, except for the half speed thing
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 29, 2005 11:00 PMAll linux is slower than it needs to be because most linux packagers think it should be optimized to be a work station not a desktop, that preloading, caching and prelinking (for example) are evil. They don't want some desktop application taking up clock cycles and memory when they kick off a compile. Well I don't compile programs and I don't want clock cycles or memory sitting around idle when it could be waiting eagerly to draw a window or open a spreadsheet.
That's changing and I would expect in the next year or so to see an explosion of faster booting linux distros with faster desktop responsiveness (SUPER SuSE is one such project).
I agree that its a good thing to have the evil non-free software pre-installed. I use mp3, windows media files, flash media, java etc every day. Kudos to Warren.
The free software Puritans are certainly entitled to their view, but those of us who prefer that stuff are entitled to ours as well.
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