Re: FVWM: fvwm2 dropped from Red Hat Linux!

From: Kendrick Vargas <ken_at_hudat.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 11:50:59 -0400 (EDT)

And you know... here I am with a 256k 32pin SIM on my keychain and a 512
meg stick in my computer (that cost next to nothing comparitively), and I
still think this is funny :-)
                        -peace

On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, szonyi calin wrote:

> --- Jukka Lehti <jukkalehti_at_yahoo.com> a écrit : >
> Hi,
> >
> > I just noticed Red Hat has dropped fvwm2 package
> > from
> > their latest beta! I think this is outrageous and we
> > should make an official protest against this
> > unjustified decision!
> >
>
> You must be joking, right ?
> Why do you think the new computers have huge
> amounts of ram ? To run fvwm ? No
> You need something to take advantage of your ram.
> Something like Gnome or KDE. That's why they
> are dropping fvwm. In terms of memory usage it
> is not well suited for the new millenium.
>
> Programs these days consume more and more memory
> only fvwm decided: "Hey I can do a lot of things
> without consuming much memory". This is a very
> conservative aproach and is not well suited for
> times we are living in :-))
>
> Fvwm has bad habbits. I mean why a program should
> free memory when you have so much at your
> disposal ? :-))
>
>
>
> > I'm going to fill in a bug report to Red Hat's
> > bugzilla RSN.
> >
>
> And they will say it's a hardware problem :-))
>
> Calin
>
>
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