wanted. english word.

[D-Man]

On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:01:00PM +0400, Oleg Broytmann wrote:
| On Wed, 30 May 2001, D-Man wrote:
| > Nah, just get OpenBSD (or is it FreeBSD?) -- it's the same kernel.  I
| > don't actually know what hardware requirements the *BSD's have, but I
| > know Linux will run on any M68K with a PMMU or any PPC machine :-).
| 
|    Though FreeBSD is oriented towards 386+ processors, NetBSD (and,
| perhaps, OpenBSD) can be ran on almost every 32bit processor in the world!

Ok, I'm not too well versed on the differences between the various BSD
distributions and what hardware/software they support.

| > Isn't it a little ridiculous to spend cpu time updating an animated
| > wristwatch/whatever on the screen instead of putting all available
| > power into comleting the task?  I guess on an unstable system it is
| > warranted, however ;-).
| 
|    No, it is not. If we (personnaly, I am unixhead, mostly linuxoid) want
| to conquer the world we simply must take into account user interface
| guidelines.

Well, what if the really long task was completed effectively
instantaneously?  I think that having no delays would be an even
better UI; though of course that isn't always possible even on decent
platforms ;-).  

|    And modern computer are overpowered anyway, why not to give away
|    some processor's power - to RC5 contest, SETI at HOME or hourglass?

No problem as long as it doesn't take forever for the real job at hand
to complete :-) (again, not always possible on today's platforms, not
to mention any particular company's name here...<wink>).

-D