[aklug] Re: console applications resource

On 11/23/2010 09:27 AM, foxh0und wrote:
> My understanding is he was watching an avi or xvid encoded dvd-rip and not
> the DVD directly. I haven't even tackled mencoder...yet.
>
> A little bit of my background-my first computer was a Commodore 128. I
> didn't realize at the time how small a 2 mhz processor or 128 kb ram was,
> It did run games and a word processor (and ran them well.) Years later my
> first internet connection was a 56 kb/s line-websites were so simple. 25+
> years later I now realize that programmers had to move individual bits
> around from a 4 kb executable. Just amazing!
>
> How does that relate to this thread? Well I have been fascinated with
> these so called lightweight distros since I first heard of Puppy and
> DSL-especially when they just worked, compared to Suse and Fedora back
> then (and before I discovered noapic acpi=off...there are many computer
> monitors with my forehead imprinted on them before that discovery.) They
> overcame those hardware restrictions and created something very useful.
> And attractive if you have a finely developed aversion to bloat. They
> worked on older computers and just scream on newer computers. I agree
> with item #3 on the blog: Don't drag my system. I have yet to find a
> console app that is resource intensive.
>
> In this day and age of 8gb memory and network connections measured in Gb/s
> I find it ironic that "modern" hardware is powered by the likes of Atom or
> ARM to get our work done.
>
> Btw this reply is my very first written from Alpine with IMAP to my Gmail
> account (do not forget "[Advanced User Preferences] Save will Not Delete"
> and "[Pruning Rule] don't rename, don't delete."
>
> Yes the learning curve is higher but this sucker is FAST!
>

I like to believe it enables my process in general to be tuned and faster as well.
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Received on Tue Nov 23 10:22:44 2010