On Saturday 15 September 2018 02:40:14 Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 14.09.18 16:10, Michael Stone wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 01:23:31PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > I just find it amazing that the kernel has grown to be so big as > > > to be comparable to a complete unix distribution on a workstation > > > of some years ago (with GUI, compilers, ...). > > > > Have you tried one of those lately? I keep some around on VMs, and > > they were *terrible*. It's nice every once in a while to remember > > how far we've come. > > Yep, as Stefan implied, not a step forward. I cannot detect any > difference between the SunOS-4.1.3 workstation I used just over a > quarter of a century ago, and my current linux box. The four xterms I > put up are still yellow on darkslategrey, from the same rgb.txt file > as back then. > > GUI stuff now runs slower than back then, and developers futz with > look and feel, without adding life-enriching new functionality. I > stopped upgrading Eagle years ago, as its UI just became harder to > use. And Firefox/Iceweasel is slow as a wet week, sometimes crashes, > and is mostly a PITA. Kdon't kget kme kstarted kon KDE. > Thats why I run TDE.
> At least the fusspots can't stuff up vim, mutt, fetchmail, procmail, > awk, and the other daily basics. > > Erik -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>