On 7/13/11 11:36 AM, Tim wrote: > I see the sense in pushing the boundaries for high end computing. I > don't see the sense in making low end computing require high end > hardware. What's low end computing? Email, web browsing, not playing > video games. It's just gross inefficiency to require a 4 GHz computer > to do that. > As I go through this rather lengthy thread I find a few more things to comment about. I agree with this comment. You should not need a multi-core system just to read mail and browse the web. Adding a high end desktop system to this is aggravating and a nuisance. That is why some folks recommend the 'lower end' windowing systems that do the basic things. I've seen people state that Gnome is needed to automount drives. Never found that to be the case when I was running RedHat 7/8 or 9. However, I could be totally incorrect. The point is that we should not saddle folks with a high end front end if their computer just cannot provide the horsepower. This also extends to the Kernel and other items. I don't have a system with 1 GB of memory, nor will it ever get there for running Linux. It is 12 years old and still runs. That is what some folks want. They don't want to add to the bottom lines of the likes of Dell/Gateway/HP and of course, indirectly, Microsoft. Now, what can I use on an IBM Thinkpad A22p/PIII 833/384MB/60GB hard drive for a front end? Sounds like GNOME3 and KDE4 are out of the question if I want any sort of functionality with the system. James -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
