[rescue] Solaris on a PPC

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 12:11:35PM +0100, Frank Van Damme wrote:

> I sadly have to agree. Kde is pretty much going the same way as windows, it 
> takes up almost half the RAM that Xp does *g* . OTOH, I thought CDE fell 
> under the "old crap" category? Or do I have to jump in a manhole again now?

I hated CDE from the first minute I touched it.
 
> Personally, I use Enlightenment, and on top of that I run gnome or kde 
> applications. 

Enlightenment?  I thought the name should be changed to enburdenment.
The last time I tried either, Sawfish was running interpreted lisp and
still manage to severely outperform enlightenment.  But, faster still
things are more my taste.  Like WindowMaker.
 
> I am not a developer, but afaik c++ compilations take a LOT more temporary 
> disk space then C. I don't have experience with it on non-x86 platforms, 
> but there are enough distributions who ship the exact same (large) 
> collection of software for x86 as for PPC or sparc. Example being Debian, 
> which uses build daemons that build package X for 11 architectures at once. 

It depends on what C++ features are being used.  Templates do take a lot
of temp space.  I wouldn't say that anything else causes it to be all
that much worse.
 
> >    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.
> 
> All that code must go SOMEWHERE though. What does it do then?

Some of it should go in the trash.  There is a lot of very sloppy
stuff.  The file manager used to reload the icons for ever file on the
screen that used it, rather than sharing one copy of each icon.  Other
programs constantly redo file system stuff that would have trivial to
cache.  The whole thing is rather embarassing.