On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 6:22 PM, John Andersen <jsamyth@gmail.com> wrote:
Grouse as you may about hardware obsolescence being forced by standard kernels and desktops. I'm with you.
But it just seems odd to turn around and badmouth the Raspberry in the same post when it is the living proof you can still do many useful things in a small machine.
My intention wasn't to badmouth the RPi. It was to ask why something so underpowered gets so much attention when there are perfectly capable machines out there that really should be more usable other than the demands of the newest versions of everything. Quite honestly, the only reason I have a 6core Phenom II in my desktop/server is for video encoding. I don't play games, edit video or anything else. Other than web browsing & checking email(which I do in webapps & have for 15+years) I don't really do anything different now than I did 10 years ago. Don't get me wrong. I used to run OS/2 & would run win16 programs in their own session so yes, that takes more resources. I also have Virtualbox installed on both my Thinkpads & my server. Until recently the P3 had win200 but now it has XP, & it works fine for what I need it to do. Sure the Core2 is more responsive but after dealing with slow computers for 30 years, having to wait isn't an issue for me. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org