A white paper published this morning by hardware analysis firm iSuppli, based on its studies of Microsoft Windows Vista running on multiple grades of computer hardware, has concluded that the software publisher's stated minimum requirements for the system - which include an 800 MHz processor, 512 MB of RAM, and a 35 GB hard drive - may not be nearly enough. "Despite Microsoft's claims that Vista can run on such trailing-edge systems," writes Matthew Wilkins, principal analyst for compute platforms research, "iSuppli believes the reality is quite different."
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Member since:2006-05-11
Yes, of course Firefox and OpenOffice were designed to be multi-platform. But that doesn't negate the fact that they are drastically more resource intensive than their single-platform integrated counterparts. The question here is performance on old hardware, not code portability.
Edited 2006-12-10 03:11
Member since:2005-07-06
Which again, you completely neglect to take into account; they're more resource hungry because they're designed to be multi-platform; when you make something multiplatform, you have additional overhead than if you were to use the default shared components that come with the operating system itself.
If you load GNOME and run GNOME based applications (only) then the amount of resources used will be no higher than Windows XP - if you were to load a KDE application whilst running GNOME, then SURE there will be a spike in resource use because a whole new LAYER of libraries have to be loaded to support the KDE application running on a foreign desktop!
What should I start doing? bitching to Microsoft because their copy of Microsoft Office 2003 uses more resources when running on Linux under wine? of corse it'll require MORE resources, its not using the already loaded shared resources which the default desktop provides!
Edited 2006-12-10 04:07
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2005-07-06
Same can be said for *NIX as well; all the GNOME components share parts with each other same with KDE as well.
There is a *REASON* for the way Firefox and OpenOffice.org were designed; they were *DESIGNED* to be multiplatform from day one - in the case of Firefox, you have XUL and its wrapper around native widgets, in the case of OpenOffice.org, you have the Software Abstration Layer (SAL) which allows one to simply port SAL and voila, the whole office suite is now running on the said operating system!
Before maeking such *STUPID* rants in future, maybe its best you put your brain into gear, closed the mouth and researched the reasons as to why such decisions were made rather than making clueless posts on osnews.com.