On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Svenn Are Bjerkem wrote:
> On Thursday 13 March 2003 01:08, Frank Van Damme wrote: > > On Wednesday 12 March 2003 21:27, Randy Kramer wrote: > ... > > > * The optimization effort currently going on in kde. > > > > I wasn't really aware of this :-) ditto :-) > It would be interesting to know why the bleeding edge people insist on using > old hardware. - we like pushing the envelope in all directions - crippling a nice new machine with unstable software doesn't always work - easiest way out of a compatibility issue > If you think that you want to draw people from win95 on a P100 > to to linux offering KDE3.1 you miss your audience. I don't think the audience is missed, maybe small, and probably best targeted (can't expect to do all of KDE3+ on an old slow box, at least not all at the same time). <...> > I really hope I am wrong and that somebody is still developing the KDE1 and Debian Weekly News - February 11th, 2003: ...the [3]Turbo Desktop Environment aimed at users with older computers who still want to run a proper desktop. It is based on KDE 1 and Debian. 3. http://www.liniso.de/tde/ Anyone used TDE yet? - Bruce
