Re: The big, the bloated and the hungry

2018-09-18 Thread Étienne Mollier
On 9/18/18 6:56 PM, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > Used Twm in those days :-) still available I believe. Still available, still fast, and still in use if I trust windows decorations illustrating that work on window scaling: https://keithp.com/blogs/window-scaling/ I haven't used it a lot

Re: The big, the bloated and the hungry

2018-09-18 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
Just bragging. First booted linux on a 40MHz PS/2 Model 50 with 8MB RAM. It took X Windows about 10 minutes to start, but it was fully responsive once it was up. Used Twm in those days :-) still available I believe. I rebuilt the kernel once to add a driver. It took 2.5 days, but succeeded and

Re: The big, the bloated and the hungry

2018-09-16 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 15 Sep 2018 11:21:03 +0200 Étienne Mollier wrote: ... > My first GNU/Linux computer ran a Mandriva 2007 (released late > 2006) operating system, shipping by default with KDE 3.5. The > box itself was some junk from early 2000 with average hardware > even from these days standards. > >

Re: The big, the bloated and the hungry

2018-09-16 Thread etienne . mollier
Good Day Thakur, 15.09.2018, 11:16, "Étienne Mollier" : > Gene Heskett on 2018-09-15T10:04 CEST: > > On Saturday 15 September 2018 02:40:14 Erik Christiansen wrote: > > > Kdon't kget kme kstarted kon KDE. > > > > Thats why I run TDE. > > If you wish software that sucks less, you might wish to

Re: The big, the bloated and the hungry (Was: ext2 for /boot ???)

2018-09-15 Thread Thakur Mahashaya
Hi, everybody... this only on Debian Sid ? 15.09.2018, 13:37, "Thakur Mahashaya" : > Hi, everybody... > this only on ...? > > 15.09.2018, 11:16, "Étienne Mollier" : >>  Good Day, >> >>  Gene Heskett on 2018-09-15T10:04 CEST: >>>   On Saturday 15 September 2018 02:40:14 Erik Christiansen wrote:

Re: The big, the bloated and the hungry (Was: ext2 for /boot ???)

2018-09-15 Thread Thakur Mahashaya
Hi, everybody... > this only on sid? 15.09.2018, 13:37, "Thakur Mahashaya" : > Hi, everybody... > this only on ...? > > 15.09.2018, 11:16, "Étienne Mollier" : >>  Good Day, >> >>  Gene Heskett on 2018-09-15T10:04 CEST: >>>   On Saturday 15 September 2018 02:40:14 Erik Christiansen wrote: >>>   >

Re: The big, the bloated and the hungry (Was: ext2 for /boot ???)

2018-09-15 Thread Thakur Mahashaya
Hi, everybody... this only on ...? 15.09.2018, 11:16, "Étienne Mollier" : > Good Day, > > Gene Heskett on 2018-09-15T10:04 CEST: >>  On Saturday 15 September 2018 02:40:14 Erik Christiansen wrote: >>  > GUI stuff now runs slower than back then, and developers >>  > futz with look and feel,

Re: The big, the bloated and the hungry

2018-09-15 Thread Étienne Mollier
Felix Miata on 2018-09-15T10:43 (CEST): > KDE3 was stable and efficient, didn't need to be abandoned to > (re)create KDE4 from scratch. In openSUSE, KDE3 remains > available, though a little lighter for having lost most > maintainers and a few packages. TDE, the KDE3 fork, hasn't > lost any of

Re: The big, the bloated and the hungry

2018-09-15 Thread Felix Miata
Étienne Mollier composed on 2018-09-15 10:15 (UTC+0200): > Gene Heskett on 2018-09-15T10:04 CEST: >> Erik Christiansen wrote: >>> 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

The big, the bloated and the hungry (Was: ext2 for /boot ???)

2018-09-15 Thread Étienne Mollier
Good Day, Gene Heskett on 2018-09-15T10:04 CEST: > On Saturday 15 September 2018 02:40:14 Erik Christiansen wrote: > > 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,