Too many dependencies? was: Is Linux always so frustating?

[duncan brown]

slashdot linked to that article about when it came out.  some of the stats seem really skewed, like the 1.8 tons of water for a monitor.  i'm sure that almost all of it is recycled water from a previous monitor, otherwise monitors wouldn't be so freaking cheap.  and if you leave your computer on 24x7, then yes, it probably does use up about as much juice as a fridge... if it's an AMD XP or a cutting edge intel... but the tides are changing, mhz isn't going to be paramount anymore, it's going to be efficiency.  look at intel and the low mhz centrino based laptops.  people are starting to realize that they don't really notice much of a difference between a better engineered 1.3ghz machine and a 3.4ghz "get it out to the market as quickly as possible" machine when they're on the web, emailing or anything.  i personally see the future as slower processors with large (1mb+ cache) that are energy efficient as the future.

completely off topic, sorry.  he started it =]

-d

----- Original Message -----
From: "M. Fioretti" <m.fioretti at inwind.it>
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 22:30:29 +0200
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Too many dependencies? was: Is Linux always so frustating?


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