-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2010-06-19 10:52, Sven Burmeister wrote:
Am Samstag, 19. Juni 2010, 10:22:57 schrieb Felix Miata:
On 2010/06/19 08:40 (GMT+0200) Sven Burmeister composed:
Felix Miata wrote:
Oh how many machines, at what CPU speeds, with how much RAM?
KDE4 runs fine on older machines as well, it runs fine on netbooks. And btw the GPU or to be precise the graphics driver's capabilities are one of the major factors on how KDE4 is perceived. And yes, todays software is for recent hardware not oldtimers whose hardware is worse than a mobile phone's from the present. Use old hardware with old software or software that was meant to be for outdated hardware.
One of the strong points of Linux was that it could be used on older hardware, extending the life of those machines. You are negating that goal.
Not everyone can afford to replace working hardware. Many who can instead choose to avoid that ecologically bankrupt practice.
Not forgetting that often those old machines are donated; to charities, poorer countries, etc.
Hm, AFAIK today's CPUs waste less power than those from a few years ago, same for hard disks, just as one example. So ecologically old hardware might even be more harmful. Same for heavy metal usage in hardware components.
The manufacturing of one cpu is always worse than running the existing hardware. You may save power when using it, but you need a lot of power to build it. It might have less harmful materials, but that will always be worse than simply not making the machine and using the older one (till it fails), which is already built and the damage (in materials) is already committed. Same goes for cars, washing machines, whatever. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" GM (Elessar)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkwcixcACgkQU92UU+smfQXbpwCfX5GVz14HmP0ApZ4kPaXh/ebC EE0AnRWjpIB27kO8FqhEYH4KbgigrYhA =ZMkK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org