I was just sorting out my backups the previous day and stumbled upon a desktop screenshot back from 2003. It certainly brought back many wonderful memories of patching (preempt, AC, CK, AA branch etc) and re-compiling the kernel every few days just to make my dekstop a little bit more responsive. In retrospect, modern day multi-core processors are 2 or 3 times faster than processors in 2003, yet I am surprised that KDE and GNOME on my Ubuntu 7.1 box just feels slow and bloated compared to what I was using back then. Are we sacrificing speed and responsiveness for the sake of eye-candy and extraneous features ? it certainly feels that way to me ……
Old Desktop = Fluxbox + Gkrellm + Mozilla (Firefox didn’t exist then !) + WindowMaker Dockapps.
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