On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 00:04, M. Kirchhoff wrote: > Quoting "Jamin W. Collins" <jcollins@asgardsrealm.net>: > > > On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 03:21:39PM -0700, John Sunderhaus wrote: > > > > > But your point is well taken; you can productively run X on an > > > underpowered machine - but I'll bet you aren't happy. > > > > I'd bet quite the contrary. Chances are they use it because they *are* > > happy with it. I much prefer my Blackbox based X configuration to > > anything else available for Windows, Mac, or Linux. Why? Because it's > > what *I* chose. Not what someone else decided I should use. Does it > > have all the latest eye candy? Hell *no*. That's one of the main > > reasons I use it. I don't want all that extra overhead (and yes, my > > system has more than enough processor power to spare). The point is, > > it's all about choice. > > > Ditto. My PII-366 ThinkPad with 128MB RAM runs Fluxbox on X like a champ. So > does my Athlon 1.2Ghz desktop with 768MB RAM; I don't feel the need to run a > bloated desktop environment simply because my hardware can handle it. > > M. Kirchhoff I ran FVWM (back when it was FVWM2) on my first generation Pentium/90MHz in 80 MiB of RAM and nine desktops loaded with programs (top, system monitors, diald's dctrl gui, Netscape 4, several xterms, emacs) with reasonable comfort and response - only slow aspects were the full hard drives and that I was on dial-up back then. The big consideration is what sort of load are you placing on the hardware and what is it honestly capable of. The Pentium/90MHz system started straining when load pushed much over 2, while my PIII-800MHz with 512 MiB RAM now handles a load of 4-5 comfortably, and only starts to slow as it approaches 7, and crawls at 10. I have seen it hit 12+, but I remember a VAX 11/780 I used a couple decades back hitting a load in excess of 40 at one time when a university course had an assignment due on that machine. That VAX was good up to a load of 10 for interactive functions, and it wasn't until it moved past 15 that it started to be unusable for interactive functions. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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