Re: Newer old hardware

From	notbob <notbob@nothome.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject	Re: Newer old hardware
Date	2011-08-31 23:04 +0000
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On 2011-08-31, Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> wrote:

> Well, going for a dualcore processor is not just going for a faster 
> processor.  As I've explained, each core on a multicore processor chip 
> is in itself a fully-fledged processor.  So you will actually be going 
> SMP by upgrading.

I'll probably give it a shot if I run across an about-to-be-discarded
box at the right price.  

> exclusively) the GUI environments like KDE, Gnome and XFCE.  

Finally, someone else who realizes XFCE has been taking on bloat for
years.  Since I don't give a rat's ass what the desktop does or looks
like, I use fluxbox.  Solves the strigi/nepomuk/akonadi problem, too.

nb

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Newer old hardware notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2011-08-30 17:55 +0000
  Re: Newer old hardware Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2011-08-30 21:15 +0200
  Re: Newer old hardware General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-08-30 20:04 +0000
    Re: Newer old hardware notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2011-08-31 15:58 +0000
      Re: Newer old hardware General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-08-31 16:05 +0000
        Re: Newer old hardware notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2011-08-31 16:11 +0000
          Re: Newer old hardware Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2011-08-31 13:15 -0400
  Re: Newer old hardware Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2011-08-30 13:35 -0700
    Re: Newer old hardware GangGreene <GangGreene@invalid.com> - 2011-08-30 17:20 -0400
      Re: Newer old hardware Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2011-08-31 08:07 +0200
        Re: Newer old hardware Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2011-08-31 08:12 +0200
        Re: Newer old hardware GangGreene <GangGreene@invalid.com> - 2011-08-31 05:28 -0400
          Re: Newer old hardware scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2011-08-31 15:10 +0000
            Re: Newer old hardware GangGreene <GangGreene@invalid.com> - 2011-08-31 16:27 -0400
            Re: Newer old hardware Jon Solberg <news@jonsolberg.nospam.se> - 2011-09-06 11:19 +0000
        Re: Newer old hardware notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2011-08-31 15:45 +0000
  Re: Newer old hardware Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2011-08-31 04:32 +0200
    Re: Newer old hardware J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2011-08-31 13:48 +0000
      Re: Newer old hardware Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2011-08-31 22:35 +0200
        Re: Newer old hardware Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2011-08-31 14:12 -0700
          Re: Newer old hardware Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2011-08-31 23:37 +0200
            Re: Newer old hardware General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-08-31 21:58 +0000
              Re: Newer old hardware Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2011-09-01 00:04 +0200
                Re: Newer old hardware Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2011-08-31 15:18 -0700
                Re: Newer old hardware Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2011-09-01 00:30 +0200
              Re: Newer old hardware Bill Marcum <bill@lat.localnet> - 2011-09-02 19:31 -0400
                Re: Newer old hardware Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2011-09-05 08:35 +0200
    Re: Newer old hardware notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2011-08-31 15:41 +0000
      Re: Newer old hardware Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2011-08-31 16:55 +0100
        Re: Newer old hardware notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2011-08-31 16:06 +0000
          Re: Newer old hardware General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-08-31 16:17 +0000
          Re: Newer old hardware Dirk Weber <dirk-weber@web.de> - 2011-08-31 23:40 +0200
      Re: Newer old hardware Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2011-08-31 13:35 -0400
      Re: Newer old hardware "Trevor Hemsley" <Trevor.Hemsley@mytrousers.ntlworld.com> - 2011-08-31 14:06 -0500
      Re: Newer old hardware Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2011-08-31 22:44 +0200
        Re: Newer old hardware notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2011-08-31 23:04 +0000
          Re: Newer old hardware Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2011-09-01 01:40 +0200
  Re: Newer old hardware Vlad_Inhaler <andrew.williams@t-online.de> - 2011-09-05 08:07 -0700

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