On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 02:00, Örn Hansen wrote:
tisdag 16 mars 2004 10:15 skrev Istiqfar:
I think X-windows memory requirement is higher than windows GUI. ... [ clipped ]
Windows XP has a minimum requirement of 256Mb of ram. 512Mb recommended.
X Windows has no real memory requirements, it's so minimal that 128Mb would be quite sufficient. On the other hand, nobody is running X windows alone. Everyone is running either the gnome desktop, or KDE desktop. ah, but some of us run FVWM :-) These two desktop architectures have quite a lot of memory requirements, but they have very little relations beyond the Xlib.
There are some benefits on Windows, as you say, it's not a server-client architecture and therefore games will usually be faster. On the other hand, X has an advantage that hasn't been utilized. It has the possibility of a uniform desktop. It's got everything ready, to be able to run a program on a different machine, while it will appear as if it were running on your own desktop. Unfortunately, that's not being utilized because too many people are trying to copy what Windows is doing, instead of going beyond.
Sometimes I fear that to many of the experts spent too much time in Unix, and they didn't know about some nice things that happened in the CP/M and Amiga worlds. Yes, Linux can do better than windows, and some desktop users are pulling for you experts. Stanley Long, PE Consulting Electrical Engineer Anchorage, Alaska (a windowless office, with a good view :-))