Re: Topic for discussion: OS Design

[lamont]

On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote:
> This user also wants a
> smooth GUI, a mouse pointer that doesn't flinch under load, 

Try andrea archangeli's VM patches.  When I use those patches X gets much
smoother and xmms (with nice -5) never skips.  2.2 VM sucks, film at 11.

> and a small
> enough
> system that he won't have to be swapping all the time (not entirely
> kernel's
> fault).

Huh?  RAM is cheap.  If 128MB of PC133 isn't enough for you, then it isn't
the kernel's fault, its your bloated apps.

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