the good thing about open source is that if you don't like bloated
software, you don't have to use it, because there is almost always a
minimalist alternative. some of us like evolution and konqueror and
other bloatware. i do agree about games and things. those should
always be plugins, but a plugin architecture could also be seen as
bloat...
On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 12:56, jeff wrote:
> bpreece1 wrote:
>
> >Office had Pinball, Volcanos, and Flight Simulators in it!
> >
> >
> >
> True, but the point is, why do we have to tolerate the excess
> baggage compiled in a word processor, regardless of who released it? I
> don't have the luxury of too much ram or disk space, or a cpu that is
> too fast. From my viewpoint, they are only degrading the product by
> including these "features". Remember the DOS version of Word Perfect?
> Half a dozen or so 720k floppies. The last version that I tried was over
> 100MB installed. Whatever happened to plain, simple, do what was
> intended and nothing else apps? It is heading that direction with Linux
> too. Slackware 2 would install with everything in about 275MB and run
> happily on a 486 with 16M of RAM. Now we have distros that come with
> several cd's and with careful selection of packages still barely fit
> within 1 gig if you run a GUI. And a minimum requirement of 64MB just to
> run the installer.
>
> OK, enough ranting, and no offense intended if I ragged on anyone's
> favorite distro/app. :-)
>
> Jeff
>
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