[Foresight-distro] Re: AMD 510 KHz, 512 Mb muistia, 32 Mb muistin GeForce (Nvidia)

[Dotan Cohen]

On 23/05/07, Mike <1100100 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Compared to fluxbox, xfce, and enlightenment - both gnome and kde are
> hogs.  Just the file managers in both gnome and kde require more RAM
> than fluxbox, xfce, and enlightenment.    Didn't intend to portray
> Gnome unfairly, it's just a fact that Gnome and KDE are very large
> desktop environments and have largely increased RAM needs to function
> well.
>
> But the only way to know if you get the performance you want is to
> give it a try.
>

Additionally, if an *box user opens Firefox||Open Office (both GTK)
and then, for example, Opera (Qt) then he will be using _more_ RAM
then Gnome or KDE alone. So it depends upon habits and user
preferences as well.

Dotan Cohen

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