Where are the goals of XFCE.

[Vincent]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Richard Querin <rfquerin at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Vincent <mailinglists at vinnl.nl> wrote:
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>> I'm not going to argue what is reasonable, but if you think an 8 year old
>> computer is reasonable now, do you think it still is reasonable to support
>> it in five years? Or in other words: if you thought a then eight-year-old
>> computer was a reasonable target five years ago, do you think a
>> thirteen-year-old computer is a reasonable target today?
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> No. By a 'moving' window, I meant that maybe catering to a 5 or 8 year old
> PC from the current time (now or 10 years from now)  might be reasonable. So
> today it would be a PC from 2001 say. In 2012 it might be a PC from 2005.
> That is what I meant.
>

Right, then we agree (that in 2012 it might be reasonable not to support a
computer from 2001 anymore).



On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 7:52 PM, Ambrose Li <ambrose.li at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2008/7/14 Vincent <mailinglists at vinnl.nl>:
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> > I'm not going to argue what is reasonable, but if you think an 8 year old
> > computer is reasonable now, do you think it still is reasonable to
> support
> > it in five years? Or in other words: if you thought a then eight-year-old
> > computer was a reasonable target five years ago, do you think a
> > thirteen-year-old computer is a reasonable target today?
>
> I obviously cannot speak for other parts of the world. But we are using
> computers from 13 years ago here and from what I can gather it will
> be another 5 years (if not more) before they will be "discarded", and
> on these boxes running Windows (even NT5) is actually quicker than
> running XFCE (an almost-5-year-old XFCE, not the current one).
>
> I don't know if this means anything. Perhaps people from other parts
> of the world can fill me in.
>

Of course, this was just an example. What I was saying that some time they
will have to be discarded. You have to draw the line somewhere, and so does
Xfce.
-- 
Vincent
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