RE: Goals for 2.10 - desktop-wide profiling

["Eugenia Loli-Queru" <eloli hotmail com>]

> Fedora 2 seems happy with 128Mb except with open office and to an extent
> with Evolution.

No Alan, it's not. I tried FC2 on a 128 MB machine, it was *unusable*. In 
fact, sometimes the apps that I would click via the menus wouldn't load at 
all (512 MBs of swap btw). FC2 does require 192 MBs of RAM for Gnome (and 
it's on the release notes too).

> XFCe is still snappy in 32Mb using gtk2, so we know it can be done.

XFce 4 is "just" usable at 128 MB on Fedora. When I installed FC2 last May, 
I had to ultimately switch to it, until I would receive a new stick of RAM. 
When I upgraded to 320 MBs of RAM, then Gnome became usable on FC2 without a 
problem.

On the same machine, Arch Linux was even a bit more usable with Gnome and 
128 MBs, than FC2 was with XFce 4.x. (I had Arch on that machine in April).

Eugenia