At 06:35 3/1/00 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
[... somehow I got left out ... John's repying to me, not Mike]
>> At 19:41 2/28/00 -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:
>> >priority IMHO. Even experienced users will assume that something
>> >has went wrong if there are no visual cues indicating
>>
>> exp
> At 19:41 2/28/00 -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> >priority IMHO. Even experienced users will assume that something
> >has went wrong if there are no visual cues indicating
>
> experienced users will alt-pf2 to get to a prompt and run ps or
There are usually not so many of those things around a
[ Tuesday, February 29 2000 ] had Ivan Jager saying:
> BTW, I've allways done ftp installs and I don't see what is so graphical
> about the graphical install. Is it just because I do an ftp install?
Yes, the GUI installer is only used by NFS and CDROM installs (possibly
hard drive now, not sure)
JF Martinez wrote:
>
> >
> > At 19:41 2/28/00 -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> > >priority IMHO. Even experienced users will assume that something
> > >has went wrong if there are no visual cues indicating
> >
> > experienced users will alt-pf2 to get to a prompt and run ps or
> > somehting to see
>
> At 19:41 2/28/00 -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> >priority IMHO. Even experienced users will assume that something
> >has went wrong if there are no visual cues indicating
>
> experienced users will alt-pf2 to get to a prompt and run ps or
> somehting to see what the heck is happening before
At 19:41 2/28/00 -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:
>priority IMHO. Even experienced users will assume that something
>has went wrong if there are no visual cues indicating
experienced users will alt-pf2 to get to a prompt and run ps or
somehting to see what the heck is happening before hitting the
po
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, JF Martinez wrote:
>> > If you want to keep RedHat usable by 486s you have to keep a low
>> > weight GUI and rewrite in C some parts of the install.
>>
>> How does a long install affect the usability of the system? You only
>> have to do it once!
>>
>
>When you see a scree
>
> On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 12:34:07AM +0100, JF Martinez wrote:
> > If you want to keep RedHat usable by 486s you have to keep a low
> > weight GUI and rewrite in C some parts of the install.
>
> The CPU intensive parts _ARE_ in C. RPM is just doing much much more
> in its transaction set proc
>
> JF Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > If you want to keep RedHat usable by 486s you have to keep a low
> > weight GUI and rewrite in C some parts of the install.
>
> How does a long install affect the usability of the system? You only
> have to do it once!
>
When you see a screen
JF Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If you want to keep RedHat usable by 486s you have to keep a low
> weight GUI and rewrite in C some parts of the install.
How does a long install affect the usability of the system? You only
have to do it once!
--
Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In
On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 12:34:07AM +0100, JF Martinez wrote:
> If you want to keep RedHat usable by 486s you have to keep a low
> weight GUI and rewrite in C some parts of the install.
The CPU intensive parts _ARE_ in C. RPM is just doing much much more
in its transaction set processing than it
> RH 6.2 beta it spent about ten minutes in the 'Preparing to install'
> screen and this was on a Cyrix 166+ who is supposed to have about
> three times the horsepower of a 486 DX2 66. That would have meant 30
> minutes on a 486. Quite simply unbearable.
A text mode install took about 2 hours
>
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, JF Martinez wrote:
>
> > If RedHat pushes towards resource hungry User interfaces like
> > Gnome/KDE and installations in Python who are looong (at least the
> > update was) on a Cyrix 686 at 133 Mhz (rated like a 166+) it seems
> > there is little reason to continue
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, JF Martinez wrote:
>If RedHat pushes towards resource hungry User interfaces like
>Gnome/KDE and installations in Python who are looong (at least the
>update was) on a Cyrix 686 at 133 Mhz (rated like a 166+) it seems
>there is little reason to continue using the -m486 fl
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, JF Martinez wrote:
> If RedHat pushes towards resource hungry User interfaces like
> Gnome/KDE and installations in Python who are looong (at least the
> update was) on a Cyrix 686 at 133 Mhz (rated like a 166+) it seems
> there is little reason to continue using the -m48
If RedHat pushes towards resource hungry User interfaces like
Gnome/KDE and installations in Python who are looong (at least the
update was) on a Cyrix 686 at 133 Mhz (rated like a 166+) it seems
there is little reason to continue using the -m486 flag for compiling
since 486s seem far too und
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