Re: Netscape and Gnome

[mark hoist nlcomm com]

Speaking of memory usage...

My long term strategy with Gnome is to run it on a server here at work
and have X terminals - this is easy with QVWM and Word Perfect right
now; but I consider it impossible with Gnome unless I get one of those
Pengium servers with 1 GB of RAM for each workgroup.

Just my $.02,
Mark


   Are there any plans to fix this at any stage, I assume the large memory
   usage is unnecessary. I have the luxury of 196mb, but the idea that the
   small tight Linux system is being diluted with Microsoft techniques is
   unpleasant.

   Please don't get me wrong I think Gnome is fantastic!

   Steve.

   -----Original Message-----
   From: Nils Jeppe [mailto:nils@jeppe.de]
   Sent: 22 April 1999 14:11
   To: mark@hoist.nlcomm.com
   Cc: "recipient.list.not.shown"
   Subject: Re: Netscape and Gnome


   On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 mark@hoist.nlcomm.com wrote:

   > an incredible memory hog... it drives me nuts on my machine with
   > 90 megs of RAM; I can't imagine the pain of running it with 16 megs.

   Well, I ran my P60 using 40MB and 64MB. 64 is okay most of the time...
   unless you want to run Gnome, Netscape, StarOffice, and a kernel compile
   at the same time ;-)

   > Note: the only worse memory hog than Gnome is Netscape - NS is

   Actually in my experience That Other GUI For Linux is a bit more memory
   inetnsive ;)

   > For low memory systems I use QVWM or WindowMaker and avoid
   > netscape....

   WindowMaker is a good choice :-) And it's just sooooo beautiful :-)

   To the original poster - if you run E on that machine, then you should
   really not be surprised :)


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   I hope my damage didn't take any brain.


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