Re: Bloat in desktop environments

[Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 07:31:16PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote:
> Memory requirements of desktop environments, from
> <http://linuxreviews.org/software/desktops/>:
> 
> * XFCE 4:   128 MB
> * Gnome 2:  384 MB
> * KDE 3:    512 MB
> 
> Gnome, and KDE are slow, and resource-hungry. Why not make something with
> less bloat, like XFCE, as the default desktop environment in Debian?
> Especially since nobody wants to spend money buying the most expensive
> hardware.

Then again, XFCE continues to have memory leak issues.  As for default,
there are different CDs that each have a different default DTE.  OTOH,
you don't have to use _any_ DTE just to use X.  OTOH, you don't have to
use X.

Doug.