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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Classmate etc compiles
From:       "Elio Cuevas" <elcugo () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-08-28 17:47:16
Message-ID: a29e06b20708281047j2385d27atf36e7b14a30f474f () mail ! gmail ! com
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2007/8/28, Luciano Montanaro <mikelima@cirulla.net>:
>
> Il Tuesday 28 August 2007 17:45:54 Jos Poortvliet ha scritto:
> > On 8/28/07, Elio Cuevas <elcugo@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Maybe Gentoo is for you (http://www.gentoo.org).
>
> Why do you say that? I think gentoo is irrelevant here.


Sorry i think misunderstood the original message.

The point would be to be able to disable certain KDE features at compile
> time
> that are too cpu-intensive/power-hungry for certain classes of machines.


I have the impresion that Linux and KDE are not made for old or lowend
machines. Not with a lot of work anyway. New distros are every day becoming
more and more dificult to install in these machines.

So work has to be done to identify the features that can be sacrificed, or
> the
> features that have to be added to make KDE a good match to this somewhat
> restricted hardware.
>
> I think this kind of work can be beneficial for more than classmate.


Yeah!

Luciano
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2007/8/28, Luciano Montanaro &lt;<a \
href="mailto:mikelima@cirulla.net">mikelima@cirulla.net</a>&gt;:<div><span \
class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px \
solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Il Tuesday \
28 August 2007 17:45:54 Jos Poortvliet ha scritto:<br>&gt; On 8/28/07, Elio Cuevas \
&lt;<a href="mailto:elcugo@gmail.com">elcugo@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>&gt; &gt; \
Maybe Gentoo is for you (<a href="http://www.gentoo.org"> \
http://www.gentoo.org</a>).<br><br>Why do you say that? I think gentoo is irrelevant \
here.</blockquote><div><br>Sorry i think misunderstood the original message. \
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, \
204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> The point would be to be \
able to disable certain KDE features at compile time<br>that are too \
cpu-intensive/power-hungry for certain classes of machines.</blockquote><div><br>I \
have the impresion that Linux and KDE are not made for old or lowend machines. Not \
with a lot of work anyway. New distros are every day becoming more and more dificult \
to install in these machines. <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" \
style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; \
padding-left: 1ex;">So work has to be done to identify the features that can be \
sacrificed, or the <br>features that have to be added to make KDE a good match to \
this somewhat<br>restricted hardware.<br><br>I think this kind of work can be \
beneficial for more than \
classmate.</blockquote><div><br>Yeah!<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" \
style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; \
padding-left: 1ex;"> Luciano<br><br>&gt;&gt; Visit <a \
href="http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub">http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub</a> \
to unsubscribe &lt;&lt;<br></blockquote></div><br>



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