Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 03:26:12AM -0400, Chad Perrin wrote:
> Simon Kitching wrote:
> >On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 18:14, CaT wrote:
> >
> >>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.
> >>
> >>It's more of a case of 'Isn't 240Mb (or 200 cos of squid) a bit much for
> >>a pretty desktop?' ;)
> >
> >
> >It's always real hard to measure actual memory usage of an app. This
> >240MB is presumably actually the memory taken by the kernel plus disk
> >cache + all sorts of other stuff too, like SSH servers.
> >
> >But assuming all 240MB are used by the desktop, thats what- US$50?
> >I'm willing to pay that for the chance to run a pretty desktop for the
> >lifetime of that PC. And I live in a country where the US$ is about
> >twice that value in real terms.
> >
> >Of course some people live places where that *is* an unacceptable amount
> >of money. So it's good that they have options, like XFce or others [see
> >the RULE project for details on running a truly "light" linux
> >install...].
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Simon
> >
>
> The hell with the money. There are people running Linux on P-II 450MHz
> systems that can't even carry more than 512MB RAM. That's half their
> memory, right there.
>
And there are people doing memory intesive jobs that will eat up
whatever memory you've got available ;-) I have access to a 2GB
computer and I eat up all the memory there also, not to mention my
256MB laptop.
Gnome and KDE are also bloated everywhere else, not just memory, they
kill your cpu in the process also.
Personally I like fvwm, you can great gui with under 35MB when you
throw in the overhead for X, the kernel, sshd, ftpd + ... and its fast.
Heard good reviews also for windowmaker and icewm.
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