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Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?



CaT <cat@zip.com.au> said on Tue, 15 Jun 2004 16:14:37 +1000:
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 02:50:43PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> > s. keeling wrote:
> > > I gave up on both of those; they're equally uncontrollable, and far
> > > too fat to leave any room for actual applications to run.  ymmv.
> > 
> >     Could've fooled me.
> > 
> > KDE + Squid + Addzapper + other stuff...
> > 
> > {grey@teleute:~} free
> >              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> > Mem:        775556     767612       7944          0     131368     392300
> > -/+ buffers/cache:     243944     531612
> > Swap:       655344      26600     628744
> > 
> >     531Mb's not enough?  Hmph.

Gee, the biggest workstation I have access to only has 1GB ram. Aren't
you lucky?

> It's more of a case of 'Isn't 240Mb (or 200 cos of squid) a bit much for
> a pretty desktop?' ;)

Especially if you only have 256MB ram (think: anything more than 1 year
old - ie, what the majority of us own).

The day some idiot breaks X irreperably for Fvwm users in favour of
some fancy new shiny crap, is the day I leave Linux.

-- 
TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/
cat /kat/ n.  A furry keyboard cover



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