[rescue] Solaris on a PPC

[Dave McGuire]

On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 07:54 PM, Frank Van Damme wrote:
>>    Great...so while the rest of the computing world is moving forward
>> (well, except for the possibility of Gnome and KDE) Microsoft is 
>> moving
>> *backward*.  Big surprise there.
>
> Heh... could you support your answer with proof? I mean about Gnome and
> KDE... Being an opensource fanatic I can't let this one go :-p

   I'm an open source fanatic too...that has nothing to do with it.  
Both Gnome and KDE are so UNBELIEVABLY slow and bloated that it's just 
ridiculous.

   For proof, compare the sit-down-and-use-it performance of ANY other 
modern desktop platform (I said "modern", i.e. not Windows) with Gnome 
or KDE.  I'm not even talking about minimalist stuff like X with 
twm...Try, for example, X with CDE.

   Then, for added fun, try...just TRY...to compile Gnome from 
distributed sources on anything but Linux on an x86.  If you don't give 
up in frustration due to nonportable code and Linux/x86 assumptions, 
just see how long it takes to build the huge fucking thing.  Then do a 
"du" for added fun.

   There is no reason...ZERO...for this stuff to be this bloated.  It 
has some great functionality, sure, but nowhere near enough to justify 
hundreds of megabytes of disk space and a day-long compile.

   This has nothing at all to do with Gnome or KDE being open source.

        -Dave

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