Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2016 14:01:24 -0500 From: Brandon J. Wandersee <brandon.wandersee@gmail.com> To: CK <un_x@earthlink.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X+webkit = Disgraceful Message-ID: <86lgz0rj7f.fsf@WorkBox.Home> In-Reply-To: <E1biHyX-0006t8-Pb@elasmtp-curtail.atl.sa.earthlink.net> References: <E1biHyX-0006t8-Pb@elasmtp-curtail.atl.sa.earthlink.net>
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CK writes: > 250+ MB, 36+ hours of downloading, and I still > can't even view the WWW, graphically. It's just > fucking disgusting. In 1996, I didn't even have > a hard drive that big, and my kernel was about > 1/2 MB, RAM was 16MB, FreeBSD took about 16MB of > disk space, and I could install everything from a > bunch of floppies, and Xwindow + graphical browser > was just a minor addition - maybe a few MB at most. > And guess what? THE WEB DOESN'T LOOK ANY BETTER > TODAY THAN THEN (with the exception of server-side > font control - which - apparently, took a whole new > fucking language to fix (CSS) instead of a trivial > fix to the FONT SIZE attribute specification). I > guess I should say I am no fan of video or residential > high-speed access of the Internet - for without it, > we surely wouldn't have a mess like we have today > (I'd guess it's all porn+entertainment driven). If it makes you feel any better, FreeBSD and X themselves haven't bloated nearly as much over time as GNOME and the web have, so only some of what you've installed is garbage. :P I have to say I'm curious why you're installing GNOME, though, since you've already mentioned surf and certainly sound like a suckless.org evangelist. -- :: Brandon J. Wandersee :: brandon.wandersee@gmail.com :: -------------------------------------------------- :: 'The best design is as little design as possible.' :: --- Dieter Rams ----------------------------------
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