Re: Look and Feel

[Riccardo]

Hey,

On Thursday, February 17, 2005, at 08:18 PM, Banlu Kemiyatorn wrote:

> > Not to mention Jesse's design really doesn't look fancy enough not to
> > run on older computers. Heck, there are people who've hacked MacOS X
> > to run on an old 8100/80 PowerMac. If that one can run Aqua, any
> > Pentium should be able to run Jesse's theme at blazing speed...

well... gnustep.... gnu.... I sometimes need to bitch against them.

I can run os-x comfortably on my old 9600. NeXT run on 68030 and 68040 
computers.

Running GNUstep on a 8200 computer (120Mhz PPC, 256L2 cache, MkLinux) 
makes it slow. So? :) gnu stuff is slow. wherever "gnu" is, in the os, 
the compiler, the *step implementation.

I have used NeXT on a Sparc voyager. that is a 75Mhz MicroSparc II, 24Mb 
of ram and 500Mb 2.5" disk. Wow. Fassssst! amazingly fast. Ok, the 
graphics is a 256 color (yes!) TurboGX, which is very fast in 2d (it 
embeds a 68020 cpu).
But still, GNUstep on a workstation equivalent (that is much faster and 
with a 110Mhz cpu) runs slow. On a dual HyperSparc with independent 
caches, it is still slower. And it looks bad. No "invisible 256color 
dithering" slow menus, slow image scrolling.

Ok, on a Centrino with tons of ram and a radeon it is fast and 
enjoyable. But I think you get my point.

_R