From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RXi1y-00015h-MV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 23:33:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D3D3E21C0B2; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 23:32:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ee0-f53.google.com (mail-ee0-f53.google.com [74.125.83.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E540621C128 for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 23:31:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eekb57 with SMTP id b57so1025007eek.40 for ; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:31:26 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=5hCcTd3g3jBRB6cU7L9K5Xbvhx0NZ5ednfmcVGt1Ues=; b=aKS9qtEHPjT9vw+4lUqcIZiR3s+WZBW32Ds9/wiO2eJrBZHJbt5tZq+0wqA1u3ZmRO oZL0aeBT2hlDLrcnC3kEaTiB6grjHgPJvjAl081amv3TGOt+9V4QnuabeS9IOsC7Bonc fI1UiVHf6w8wUFGRTMixAADqsJ+XgNzU3ZOQg= Received: by 10.14.17.213 with SMTP id j61mr1600038eej.96.1323127886062; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:31:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa. [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c9sm62489081eeb.0.2011.12.05.15.31.24 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:31:25 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 23:32:22 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.0.6-gentoo; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <20111205201409.GA937@gaurahari.merseine.nu> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1630734.fCcOmG2O1a"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201112052332.24643.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 141e7f77-fdd6-4273-a96c-cd04168a7537 X-Archives-Hash: 1db29e91bd29f80ff5c452927f0ce8d5 --nextPart1630734.fCcOmG2O1a Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Monday 05 Dec 2011 20:20:38 Michael Mol wrote: > On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Indi wrot= e: > > On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 06:40:03PM +0100, Michael Mol wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 12:10 PM, LinuxIsOne wro= te: > >> > On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Indi =20 wrote: > >> >> In fact, I like gentoo and FreeBSD best for low-spoec hardware. > >> >=20 > >> > What does low-spec hardware mean? > >>=20 > >> Whatever the default setup of the latest release of Ubuntu runs > >> sluggish on. (Or what a previous version of Ubuntu ran on, but current > >> versions won't) > >>=20 > >> While somewhat flippant, that seems a pretty reasonable way to think > >> about it. > >=20 > > Seems to me Ubuntu is sluggish no matter what hardware you have. >=20 > That's why I gave the description I did. What seems sluggish to you > may not seem sluggish to me. It certainly won't seem sluggish to my > grandmother... >=20 > It tunes itself very nicely to the perceptions and needs of the > individual in question. I no longer run Gentoo on my Pentium IBM laptop - let's face it with 72M RA= M=20 even fluxbox was a bit sluggish! Ha! I do however run it on my 1998 vintage Pentium 3 laptop and before that on = a=20 Pentium 3 Coppermine. KDE is sluggish and rebuilding KDE takes a day or so= =2E =20 That's why I don't run a full KDE ... ;p Only some KDE apps on e17. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1630734.fCcOmG2O1a Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk7dVIgACgkQVTDTR3kpaLYFEQCg4kEYmMoe3PLF95zq7HkaOaBk pxEAnjGYWmJhcjL2Rid2HNFGNF3svphR =1m20 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1630734.fCcOmG2O1a--