Re: It's spelled
Steve Williams (smw_patriot@hotmail.com)
Wed, 19 Aug 1998 19:13:46 EST
Umm...you're doing something wrong. I'm running the latest AS beta and
have run most of the version from 1.4, up. If anything it's faster:
p100-64 megs of RAM, xterm comes up in less than a second. Switching
between desktops is painless and instantaneous.
I recently upgraded to 96 megs of ram, things are even faster. If you
have a P5/200 with 64 megs of RAM and it's slow, then it's not the fault
of AS.
>Subject: It's spelled "A f t e r S t e p", but it's pronounced
"BloatStep"
>To: afterstep@linuxcenter.com
>Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 14:13:17 -0700 (PDT)
>From: byron@omix.com (Byron Brummer)
>Reply-To: afterstep@linuxcenter.com
>
>
>Why is Afterstep getting so bloated?!
>
>I've been using v1.0 for quite some time, and love it. I upgraded to
1.4
>and later to 1.4.5 and ran that for about a month before finally giving
up
>on it and reinstalling v1.0. I am now moving to WindowMaker, as
Afterstep
>is killing itself... :-(
>
>Why is v1.4.* so *incredibly* bloated and slow compared to v1.0?
>
>The more I look at the new Afterstep, the less I like it. More and
more
>features are added that are of little use or at least questionable use
>(different settings for each work space...?) and add huge amounts of
>baggage. On my P5/200 with 64 Megs it can take quite a few seconds (up
to
>15?!) to switch between workspaces which also causes an effect on the
>display very similar to when the manager is restarted. This makes
multiple
>workspaces less then worthless, and this is only one area of *massive*
>bloat... Just starting an *xterm* now takes number of seconds that in
v1.0
>came up in a nano-second...
>
>I am very, very disappointed to see the direction that Afterstep has
taken.
>
>Afterstep v1.0 was very clean, pretty light weight, fast, and useful.
The
>new releases however, are *huge*, bloated, slow, and add few really
useful
>features for the massive cost they take from the system. Hell, MS
Windoze
>95/NT are *much* faster on the same hardware, and more useful... :-(
>
>With the upcomming GNOME support this is probably just going to get
much,
>much worse. Not that GNOME is a bad thing at all, I just don't think
AS
>can handle *any* more "features"...
>
>As a long time Afterstep user, I hate to say it but I'm moving to
>WindowMaker. With all the useful features plus some (drag and drop,
etc)
>I looked for in the newer AS, with none of the bloat (*faster* then
ASv1.0, as
>far as I can tell) WindowMaker is going to be the Afterstep killer.
>
>But then, Afterstep v1.4+ will be the real cause of Afterstep's
death... :-(
>
>--
>-Zenin (zenin@archive.rhps.org) From The Blue Camel we learn:
>BSD: A psychoactive drug, popular in the 80s, probably developed at UC
>Berkeley or thereabouts. Similar in many ways to the prescription-only
>medication called "System V", but infinitely more useful. (Or, at
least,
>more fun.) The full chemical name is "Berkeley Standard Distribution".
>
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