Re: [Fwd: Re: here i come !]

[Mikael Hallendal <micke codefactory se>]

tis 2002-06-25 klockan 00.40 skrev Jeff Waugh:
> <quote who="Seth Nickell">
> 
> > This is exactly the obscure sort of technical choice we *shouldn't*
> > present if we are really targeting home users. There are options though...
> > For example, what about having a low battery mode that mounts the
> > filesystem as ext2 (you can mount ext3 filesystems as ext2 as far as I
> > understand, right?). Things like that that end up being transparent.
> 
> I agree. At install time, we can have a selection like (the text is poopie,
> but you get the idea):
> 
> [x] Desktop
> 
>     Include utilities and enhancements that allow GNOME OS to perform at its
>     best on a desktop computer.
> 
> [ ] Laptop
> 
>     Include utilities and enchancements that allow GNOME OS to perform at
>     its best on a laptop or portable, such as power saving, support for
>     special laptop hardware with PCMCIA, and subpixel antialiasing for LCD
>     screens. [1]

Yeah! I like this a lot.

> Then we choose a *whole bunch* of stuff like noflushd, pcmcia modules by
> default, ext2, subpixel AA for laptop users, maybe even VPN software.
> Desktop users get ext3, and run more daemons by default depending on
> usefulness (more daemons on notebooks means more chance of waking them up
> with logging and hard disk activity).

Totally agreed.

Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal

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