Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (422 mails)

[Rob OpenSuSE <rob.opensuse.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2009/1/10 Larry Stotler <larrystotler@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 12:12 AM, Matt Sealey <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > of work but it's definitely possible to knock KDE4 down so it's
> > basically featureless (exactly like you want it) with barely anything
> > done on startup except get into X and start networking.
>
> Which shows me it's just not a compelling alternative.  The devs seems
> to have fallen into the "it's there, let's waste it" trap.  They have

Actually Qt4 and KDE4 have not increased memory consumption
particularly according to my observations.

There has been stuff added which is a matter of configuration.  11.1
just has a lot of issues right now, but testing pre-release on even 8
yr old hardware, I had acceptable performance for occasional desktop
use.

Alot of ppl with much newer machines have complained of performance
problems, so I think such a sweeping generalisation as the "it's
there, let's waste it" trap comment, is as erroneous as the 1GiB RAM
requirement.


There's a trend to more power efficient devices, that may be
encouraging developers not to use memory naively.
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