> Well, it was a horror - it took it 10 min to stabilize KDE (load, swap in and > out, and what ever other hell was going on in there), and while doing that to > give me a chance to access menu items (!) or panel applets without waiting > for each of them for 0.5 min to even react to each of my mouse clicks. > After that mountain climb the desktop was ready but noticeably slow. LiveCD will really show up any point you tip into paging and it's not a good way to get a performance picture of a distro. It's a bit better off USB2 with some of the USB sticks. > Now, I vividly remember times when we ran DOS, or even Windows 95, with > Lotus 1-2-3, WordStar, and dBASE without a hickup in this amount of RAM, and > btw on a PC with CPU and other hardware that was primitive by today's > standards. As was the software ! > And nowdays we can not get a Linux distro DE alone run satisfactorily on > a modern machine ? There are lots of people building distributions for "small" spaces using things like Yocto. The other assumption you have is also a bit dubious. Everyone in server space is now doing lots of virtualisation - having big fat distributions is exactly what the big hosting providers and corporations doing this on a large scale *hate*, because it wastes tons and tons of resources. Alan -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
