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Happy new year and goodbye bzip2 13 years ago

Here is another with lz4, lzo as well as lzma1, although they're not very relevant for the tarball test. Gzip -9 is on par with bzip2 -1 while almost twice as fast. And uses practically no memory(!).

http://pokecraft.first-world.info/wiki/Quick_Benchmark:_Gzip...

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Poll: What do you use for Unix process management/monitoring? 13 years ago

Pacemaker if you need to keep it alive no matter what.

Systemd was pretty stable until user mode flat out broke in 205. I use it to manage my entire desktop session.

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A Memory Comparison of Light Linux Desktops 13 years ago

Man, KDE is heavy. Plasma-desktop takes up 194MB here (which matches nicely with his +7MB openbox session), but Kwin, as most KDE users will arguably have, adds 99MB.

So a total of 293MB for KDE. Almost double as much as Gnome 3.

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The vision behind Opera 15 and beyond 13 years ago

Here's my wish list for Opera 15 and beyond:

  1. Linux support.
  2. Don't break my bank (dnb.no) like Chromium
  3. Single-key shortcuts
  4. Ability to close browser windows with C-w (or C-q without it killing *all* windows)
  5. Ability to start browser windows without tab bar

Single-key shortcuts and a tiling window manager recently brought me back to Opera after only using it for banking a while. It's far from a perfect TWM browser, but the keyboard navigation really is worth it.

Faithfully yours,

2003-2008, 2013-present

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