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[Douglas Furlong]

On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 16:36, Robin Laing wrote:
> Douglas Furlong wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 14:56, Ankit Malik wrote:
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> > Not that this helps you much, but you may find it entertaining...
> > 
> > http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7324
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> This is a good post.  It is one of the things that I liked about 
> previous versions of Linux.  Running on older hardware.  With FC2, it 
> looks like that won't be possible.

I'm not entirely sure how valid the post is. For example this project
(which has been mentioned at least 10 times on this list of late) has
been set up to allow Fedora Core 2 to run on low end, low resource PC's.

http://www.rule-project.org/

I don't think it's fair to expect any software distributor to be able to
please every one.

I don't think 192MB of ram is unreasonable, considering the cost of
todays memory. Any one that can't afford this, could try using the
above.

> Now the article does attribute alot of code being written in a hurry 
> to meet a demand but that does not help the growth of Linux if Linux 
> is slower than Windows boxes.
> 
> Looking at Mozilla, it is getting faster with each upgrade.
> 
> It was an issue with Windows development as well.  It was being called 
> Bloatware for ages.  Alot has to do with deveolpers that write great 
> code but forget about older machines, as stated in the article.

I don't think any one has "forgotten" about the older machines, they are
just choosing to prioritise and develop for newer ones. If people had
forgotten the rule project would not exist.

> Of course this is also evident in WWW pages that reqire broadband 
> connections.  I know people that are still stuck with 33.6 modem 
> connections.

Some times this can be just down right bad development, but other times
the developers of the web page may feel that their ambitions to create a
website for certain reasons just can't be realised when taking in to
account people on 33.6 modems. 
At the end of the day, they are developing for their own reasons not
yours (unless your the client).

> Developers need to think of speeding up applications before adding 
> more features.
I would say we need developers doing what they are doing now, pushing
forward the boundaries for functions, but more developers (you, me?) to
concentrate on efficiency. They can only do so much.

If we didn't have people complaining about speed, we would have others
complaining that there are not enough features available.

Fedora/Redhat/Mandrake/Suse/etc are NEVER going to be able to please
every one.