On 06/15/2014 11:39 AM, Dylan wrote:
On 15/06/14 05:44, Anton Aylward wrote:
KDE works. I mean, like, heck, we have to have something to eat up the power of our 8-core CPUs or all those electrons would just go to waste. Its not as if we _need_ anything faster than a 2008 P3 with 1G of memory. Lets face it, we can only type so fast and only read one page at a time no matter how many screen we have the GPU driving.
You clearly don't do much CGI/3D graphics work, or audio-video processing. My 8-core CPUs and heavy-weight GPUs are regularly churning away at full pelt for hours on end. Very few cycles go to waste round here...
Actually I do a lot of photographic processing with Darktable and Gimp and the like. Yes its not animation, its not 3-Drendering, its not gaming, but it is is very intense even if bursty. That post was meant to be so ironic that I didn't think I should need to bleed for there not being a universally accepted "Ironic" emoticon. But even so ... I stand by assertion that we don't need a lot of power ... For many applications. The company DNS/DHCP machine and LDAP/Authentication server is an old single core. So is the departmental IMAP/SMTP server. The receptionist's calendaring system used for reserving rooms and notifying people of appointments is likewise a simple desktop of great vintage. Not everyone does CGI/D-D rendering or audio processing. The bulk of desktops run 'office' applications and once stripped of the Microsoft eye-candy they don't need a lot of power. Context is Everything -- "All information stored electronically has value and shall be protected commensurate with its value." Corrolary: "If data has no value, it should not be using storage space." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org