[oclug] Silly mortal Linux is for gods

[Tom Goulet]

>	1.  Please look at your mail client config (what is the *.dat attached your
>v-card i take it. ??)

What is a *.dat file?  What is a v-card?

>	2.  Really it's a memory hog?  perhaps your installation isin't optimized
>or has a leak mabye?  It's not uncommon!

Your line wrap is broken.

>	3.  Memory Optimization is the users responsibility.  No one knows your
>system better than you right?

>	I've Xfree86 with DRI enabled (and Mesa) running consumes a mere 16MB  (out

Your definition of "mere" differs from mine.

>	But then again I compiled my once mandrake disty into my own mutated
>abommination with CVS'd audio and CVS'd speech recognition (CMUSphinx).

Those apostrophes are being abused.

>	In my mind you should read a little about the system your using before
>complaining about it's default preformance.

That apostrophe is just plain superfluous.

>	Have you considered running X as something other than root ?(possible
>security issues)

Sure, hack Linux into allowing arbitrary reads and writes to the video
card with a previously agreed upon UID and I will.

>	And if you compile X it will take full advantage of your system and its
>resources offering you lightning fast preformance with almost no overhead.
>My DRI takes up the full 16 MB of my video card, and My X server takes only
>16MB of my ram, so I've tweaked the crap out of both, I reccomend that you
>do the same.

"only"?  I suspect Microsoft Windows 98 running Solitaire uses half
that.

TomG
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