I give you an example: xfig loads much faster than kontour. Both have similar functionality and both use X. Is it Xs fault that kontour loads so slow?
And why does a simple text editor, eg. kdeit, take longer to load than a complex 3D modelling environment like blender? Both running under X?
Yes, X is adding a little bit of overhead, but even on a Pentium I at 100MHz this is neglectible.
What makes your KDE/GNOME/whatever programs slow is the huge number of libraries that need to be loaded, and for KDE additional Problems with the GNU C++ compiler which makes resolving symbols at startup slow.
With many huge libraries disk cache does not help much, because functions are spread all over the disk, you can see it from your flashing HD Light.
In fact there are some sound applications wich cause problems on PPC. For example soundtracker and ogg123 compile fine under ppc, but produce nothing than white noise! AFAIK it is a problem with byteorder, if programmers program too close to the hardware (ie byte shift operations).
Well, you obviously didn't try surfing with a filter. It really helps, makes browsing faster and doesn't disturb you. There are pages that really suck without junkbuster, with blinking ads all over them. I got used to junkbuster and hate surfing the web without it.
It would be easy to add a black list feature to gnutella. If you find an mp3 with an add, you could select an option and that server will be banned from the gnutella network. It could be difficult for a company to change it's IPs every day.
Is this Tux server that much faster than Apache, or was the kernel's network support improved since mindcraft? Or is Win2k just 5 times slower than NT4;-) ?
Why not continue the Harmony Project which is a GPL (or LGPL?) replacement for Qt. People were working on this but lost interest when Qt was released under QPL.
No. plex86 is not emulating the CPU. It is running a virtual machine with native instructions. On other platforms you need Bochs which is emulating the x86 CPU. Emulating is slower because Instructions are translated.
Yes, I downloaded the ISO-Image from SuSE, put it on a CD, bootet with BootX and used a special kernel I found somewhere on linuxppc.org. I had to download the Xpmac X-server, I couldn't get XFree-Fbdev to work. (I could boot with a kernel from SuSE, but the network didn't work) Now everything except the soundcard works, including X11, Ethernet and a 3-button mouse I bought because I didn't like the IMac-style mouse;-) I had a very hard time configuring the swiss keyboard;-( Stefan
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Completely wrong!
I give you an example: xfig loads much faster than kontour. Both have similar functionality and both use X. Is it Xs fault that kontour loads so slow?
And why does a simple text editor, eg. kdeit, take longer to load than a complex 3D modelling environment like blender? Both running under X?
Yes, X is adding a little bit of overhead, but even on a Pentium I at 100MHz this is neglectible.
What makes your KDE/GNOME/whatever programs slow is the huge number of libraries that need to be loaded, and for KDE additional Problems with the GNU C++ compiler which makes resolving symbols at startup slow.
With many huge libraries disk cache does not help much, because functions are spread all over the disk, you can see it from your flashing HD Light.
What money does Bill Gates donate? Money he got from his customers with the help of his employees. So whom should you say thanks?
What does this hand greedily holding the red ball mean? Probably "Microsoft got you by the balls" ;-)
http://free.superhits.ch/cgi-bin/superhits.cgi?pag e=search&search=ogg
My guess:
Some people are migrating from Unix to Windows, they fail and then install Linux on their Intel hardware bought for Windows.
www.freemusic.cz(free as in free beer)
free.superhits.ch(free as in free speach)
www.mp3-prod.org/(both free speach and beer)
there are many more similar sites, just look for "free music" with your favorite search engine.
FluxBox is no replacement for KDE, only for kwin, and it has KDE support.
Dont start it up with an empty page, select the US-Letter Template! (works here)
The MPAA will have to hand in a list of all prime numbers which uncompress to DeCSS so primster can block these ;-)
Wow! That must be damned fast! No waiting for Windows to open...
In fact there are some sound applications wich cause problems on PPC. For example soundtracker and ogg123 compile fine under ppc, but produce nothing than white noise! AFAIK it is a problem with byteorder, if programmers program too close to the hardware (ie byte shift operations).
Bye,
Stefan Heimers
Well Richard, you were not nice to KDE people, but I will forgive you ;-)
Bye,
Stefan
It might be that they just wantet to see if there is a market for such devices and will produce it if there seems to be some demand for it.
Stefan Heimers
Who cares! I don't want any commercial Software. A GPLed Staroffice would be great!
Stefan Heimers
Well, you obviously didn't try surfing with a filter. It really helps, makes browsing faster and doesn't disturb you. There are pages that really suck without junkbuster, with blinking ads all over them. I got used to junkbuster and hate surfing the web without it.
Stefan
Hi,
It would be easy to add a black list feature to gnutella. If you find an mp3 with an add, you could select an option and that server will be banned from the gnutella network. It could be difficult for a company to change it's IPs every day.
Stefan
Is this Tux server that much faster than Apache, or was the kernel's network support improved since mindcraft? Or is Win2k just 5 times slower than NT4 ;-) ?
Stefan Heimers
If the software needs that much support, the software sucks. Good software works without problems, so no support is needed.
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Stefan
Can you name an editor like emacs which was there before emacs? Stefan
No surprise if you save a .doc file to /proc/kcore as root ;-)
Stefan
No. plex86 is not emulating the CPU. It is running a virtual machine with native instructions. On other platforms you need Bochs which is emulating the x86 CPU. Emulating is slower because Instructions are translated.
Stefan
Yes, I downloaded the ISO-Image from SuSE, put it on a CD, bootet with BootX and used a special kernel I found somewhere on linuxppc.org. I had to download the Xpmac X-server, I couldn't get XFree-Fbdev to work. (I could boot with a kernel from SuSE, but the network didn't work) Now everything except the soundcard works, including X11, Ethernet and a 3-button mouse I bought because I didn't like the IMac-style mouse ;-) I had a very hard time configuring the swiss keyboard ;-( Stefan