Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (422 mails)

["Matt Sealey" <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Larry Stotler <larrystotler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 5:30 AM, Rob OpenSuSE
> <rob.opensuse.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Damn Small....).  However, my 9600 with a G4/700 and 1GB shouldn't be
> slower than my Dell Dual Xeon 500Mhz with 512MB.

Really? I would say it would just nip it. The G4 is a wonderful chip
but it's not a server-class SMP system.

> workhorses seem to be getting left behind by the major distros because
> of all the new "features" being added like the glitz and search tools
> and stuff.

I don't think the glitz OR search tools are too much of a problem. The
disk activity goes up, and use some CPU time, and when that's ocurring
it's usually during an idle spot. It has some implications for power
management - I'm not sure indexing stops when a system is on batteries
- what I object to is stuff like Beagle, which is an absolute monster.
C# apps take up way too much memory and ran far slower on PowerPC than
I would have expected from the fact that Mono has an officially
supported runtime.

The soaking up memory part is the main point though; having search
tools pushing memory usage so much is really infuritating. Especially
since absolutely none of them are as good as Google Desktop (to be
fair, I didn't install Google Desktop for Linux yet because I don't
actually have an x86 Linux box with a desktop to install it to. Even
if I did though would I get the same integration into the GNOME menu
etc.?

Whatever happened to Strigi? That was supposed to be the saving grace
of desktop-independent searches. KDE includes it by default now
because it needs it.. but I still got Beagle for my troubles. I also
thought I saw Strigi was in the plan for 11.1, but I didn't see any
reasons why it never got there. Not enough features? I know Novell
sponsors Mono, but really.. Beagle sucks.

> Search tools should NOT be enabled by default.  I work at a computer
> shop, and I am constantly removing google search and all the others
> because they get install and NEVER used, and they slow the computers
> down.

Do you ask your customers before you do this?

I use Google Desktop all the time, in fact I'd not know what to do
without it. I make sure all my systems are reporting to my Google
account, so when I search, it tells me which machine it's actually
on.. I'd be more than pissed off if you removed it from MY computer.

-- 
Matt Sealey <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations
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