Its not 'multi tasking' anymore? bloatware away

[Andrew]

On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 18:28, Cian Duffy wrote:

Thats getting interesting.
I liked the single button mice part.. how true...

All I have USB is a mouse. I don't need automatic stuffs that much. As
for mounting medias I wrote my own mini scripts. Auto-mounting have
always been annoying AFAIAC and I disable them as much as I can. I want
my computer to do what I am asking it. I don't want machines that think
'on their own'. That said, kudzu service is deactivated because It kept
changing fstab entries from '/dev/cdrom/' (what i want) to '/dev/hda'
(what kudzy want) and such. 

> Theres another issue here - Bloat.
> 
> I never used YDL3 because I never had recent PPC hardware until a few
> months ago - my Apple hardware line stopped abruptly before the G3. So
> I dunno what it had in it
> 
> But YDL4 has Kudzu, and due to having GNOME available, presumably has
> Hal and DBUS. It has to have some kind of hotplug manager for USB
> devices and the like. All of these start to add serious overhead to
> the system. KDE has something which scans for inserted CD's, which it
> might not have had in YDL3. Something constantly scanning for new
> disks can seriously slow down disk I/O.
> 
> Unfortunately, bloat, extra layers between the user and the hardware,
> etc are what we pay for for usability, particularly on a UNIX system.
> Many of us here could live with mounting CD's manually and modprobing
> in drivers for newly inserted hardware, but new users cannot,
> particularly not the stereotypical MacOS user (the mice have one
> button for a reason).
> 
> Progress. Its a bitch.
> 
> Cian
> 
> 
> On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 18:17:45 -0500, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.
> <joseph_sacco at comcast.net> wrote:
> > Andrew,
> > 
> > I have also witnessed similar behavior:
> > 
> > (1) 2.4.6 does not appear to multi-task as well as 2.4.x
> >     [G4-silver with dual 533MHz]
> > 
> > (2) graphics is notably slower.
> > 
> > (3) Intensive I/O loads/swamps the system.
> > For example, unpack a huge tarball in one window and try to edit a file
> > in another window.
> > 
> > -Joseph
> > 
> > ============================================================================
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 17:42, Andrew wrote:
> > >  I need and want thoughts from the best fellows out there.
> > > Some will remember that I complained my system were behaving strangely:
> > 
> > --
> > joseph_sacco[at]comcast[dot]net
> > 
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