Eat First, Fat Nevermind

The Fast Food Syndrome:

It's a very sad state of affairs. Linux was supposed to be the liberating OS, disruptive technology that would change the playing field for computing. It was supposed to breathe new life into PCs and give third-world countries new opportunities. It was supposed to avoid the Microsoftian upgrade treadmill; instead, it's rushing after Moore's Law. Such a shame.

I can't help but agree on the author, the part where he mentioned that "We need to put a serious emphasis on elegant design, careful coding and making the most of RAM, not throwing in hurried features just because we can."



As far as I am concerned, I'm not the only person who complains that Gnome is bloated. But then again, I use the terminals most of the time, so if Gnome is bloated, I would not notice. But the thing that worries me is that both Openoffice-Ximian and Openoffice.org are slow - the startup times are way slower than M$ Word. Even compiling from source (as I'm using Gentoo) and stripping binaries and preloading it into memory and starting it with -plugin -quickstart, there weren't any noticeable increase in performance, except for the start-up time.



Firefox is also not much different from Mozilla - except for the start-up and opening new tab time.



Eclipse works quite fast, in fact faster than when I used to have it on Windows XP. (Spending 3 hours compiling Java from source does have it rewards



Let's hope that Gnome and critical apps like Openoffice will not get too bloated.





Listening to: Outkast - Players Ball (OS Remix)