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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 9th Oct 2005 11:20 UTC, submitted by carbon-12

At the GNOME summit in Boston, Federico Mena-Quintero held a presentation titled "Making GNOME Fast". You can view the presentation in .html and .odp.

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RE[3]: Embarassing

by on Sun 9th Oct 2005 20:54 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Embarassing"

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Er, GNOME has been around for, like, SIX YEARS or so. Would you give the same apology to a Microsoft product that still had major flaws and design issues after six years? Of course not.

It's just like Linux -- people say "Oh, it's a new OS and the problems will be fixed soon." Er, Linux has been around since 1991, and GNU since 1984.

You'd think after 15-20 YEARS of STILL not being able to make a fast, light, easy and friendly OS, people would be focusing their efforts elsewhere.

Thankfully there's stuff like Haiku to come :-)

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RE[4]: Embarassing

by evangs on Mon 10th Oct 2005 06:13 in reply to "RE[3]: Embarassing"

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GNOME and most other OSS projects have been more focused on adding features, than speeding things up. As has already been said, optimizing existing code isn't a sexy or easy task.

On the other hand, GNOME runs mighty fine on my P4 1.8 GHz desktop at work.

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