The Strengths and Weakness of Fedora/RHEL OS management

[Alan Cox]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 02:00:24AM -0300, Avi Alkalay wrote:
> > powerful when working with a large number of systems. Really nobody has
> > scratched the surface of what it can do.
> 
> XML is good for external representation of data, but not for storage.
> XML storage makes GConf damn slow.

Not really. What made gconf slow was dumb ideas like storing one value per
file. XML is relatively efficient compared to the damage that did. The storage
is jut a backend however. Gconf as a system could use punched cards for its
data storage too if you really wanted