On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:30:41 +0200 Nicolas Sebrecht <nsebre...@piing.fr> wrote:
> The 17/09/11, pk wrote: > > > dbus is installed in my system, but only because I run Xfce4 (I am > > thinking of installing something else due to it's becoming bloated > > just like gnome). And I have "-dbus" in my global make.conf. > > > > PS. I am quite astonished at the fact that I have a computer that is > > _way_ faster than the first machine I installed GNU/Linux (an Amiga > > 4000 with a 68040 cpu at 40Mhz) on but the "experience" is still > > the same; it takes about the same time to boot, the same time (or > > even slower) to load a program. It seems the faster the computer > > the more I have to wait for it to finish some task. Contradictory, > > no? Wonder why that is... (bloat?). > > Believe it or not but I bet you're not doing the same tasks with your > modern machine and could just not run the user-end software you use > today on a Amiga 4000 with a 68040 cpu at 40Mhz because they learn new > feature since then. :-) Example: Try run a browser on that Amiga. I doubt it would even manage to display the Gentoo logo at http://www.gentoo.org. And forget all about playing music. -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
