It’s a bitch to install FC6, but once it’s on the box it’s a beauty. Turing on “Desktop Effects” (aiglx to you geeks) reduces my memoy consumption by 10% and the processor usage similarly. I’ve no idea how they did that.
GAIM 2.0 is a work of art. Beagle integration into the file-open dialog is a triumph of the open-source development methodology.
I can’t ever go back to a non-aiglx box now.
More reflections in a few days when I’ve used it for a while.
using gaim2 in edgy. whats so amazing about it?
*It doesnt flash anymore in the taskbar when a message is received.
*its tabs are annoying a fill the tab bar.
*it now has a nasty red lightbulb outline that looks like the person is not available.
these are the only things i have noticed new about it, and i dont like them.
what makes it a work of art?
Re the drop in CPU and memory consumption, I presume the workload is being farmed off to your GPU and graphics memory. Similar stuff going on in Mac OS X and Vista desktops, good to see it taking off.
Yeah, it is being farmed off to the GPU, but I didn’t expect such a major difference. Yes MS are implementing the same tech, but we demo’ed aiglx on a 600Mhz laptop (throttled at the BIOS for demo purposes) with an Intel 845G last week at linuxworld. It worked perfectly. Bet Vista won’t run on 3-year old hardware!
Ditto with Niall re: GAIM, although I didn’t like it in the first place. Needs must though.
re: Vista, Vistas main requirements are RAM and a graphics card.
You can run Vista on an 800Mhz proc with 512 RAM and any Dx9 compatible graphics card.
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