Desktop memory consumption was: Re: TM
man, 27,.06.2005 kl. 08.06 -0400, skrev OmniUni:
I see the trademark difficulty.
Perhaps "Lite Hat Linux" or something similar would work better?
Either way, I feel that in order to assure such features as
compatability, being up to date, and consistant quality, it is
important that whatever the project be called, it be closely developed
with fedora core. Though Cobind seems neat, and I will probably try
it, the combination of Nautilus+XFCE makes me somewhat nervous. I have
used gnome-panel with KDE, and Kicker with XFCE, but upon lauching
nautilus while working on my FC-LT package selection, I ended with
such a mess that it took no less than 20 minutes to sort out, and I
promptly "rpm -e"'d nautilus.
Also note: I attempted to run GNOME on my dad's p3, 128MB/RAM,
computer last night. Kernel had to kill all processes to free up
memory. KDE was slow, but at least the kernel didn't have to get
involved. I'm afraid GNOME is definately not suited for lower end
computers, at least not yet.
Please be more specific with regards to what "attempted to run GNOME"
really means. I'm writing this from Evolution with a 3 GB local
mailstore and while not hugely pleasant it works at least. I've also got
a terminal running and xchat along with the normal panel and nautilus.
Applets:
- cpu frequency monitor
- battery monitor
- gnome-dictionary
- volume control
- clock applet
- Network Manager applet
- tasklist
- workspace switcher
- notification area
[kmaraas@localhost ~]$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 125792 123460 2332 0 484 14304
-/+ buffers/cache: 108672 17120
Swap: 1048568 178912 869656
I guess I could easily free up some more memory if I went with a
non-translucent panel and a fixed color background instead of this huge
image I have there now. That and a slimmer evolution would make things
absolutely workable IMO.
All in all I was pleasantly surprised by this. I had expected much worse
behaviour after reading your message ;-)
Cheers
Kjartan