Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (422 mails)

["Larry Stotler" <larrystotler@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Matt Sealey <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If you have 4GB or 8GB of memory it is nothing to care about, but
> users put in this memory to run applications, not to provide space for
> 50 boot services which sit idle, most of which are only there to
> provide people with large amounts of memory to get things done
> quicker. This is not very friendly to those who run in more
> constrained environments. I'm not looking for GNOME etc. to run in
> 128MB (although in 10.3 it did, and I had enough memory left to run
> applications before swapping) but reducing the memory footprint of the
> basic install would be awesome.

This is the same problem that windows has.  Too many apps think they
are the most important thing you'll never use.  Like I said, they'll
use it cause it's there and only take into consideration their program
and not the fact that every other dev seems to feel the same way(not
that I'm accusing the devs here, but it's a problem everywhere).  I'm
gonna have to go on a hunt to try to remove a lot of unnecessary stuff
without breaking anything......
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