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From: Vlad Dogaru <ddvlad@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:27:33
Message-Id: bf0e048a0701201023j3e0085b4hb1ae742006563287@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system by Uwe Thiem
1 On 1/20/07, Uwe Thiem <uwix@××××.na> wrote:
2 > One good thing (among others) of using a real desktop environment is that all
3 > apps share the vast majority of libraries which are loaded into memory just
4 > once. When you mix environments or use an eclectic collection of unrelated
5 > apps, they all draw in different libraries and memory usage goes up.
6
7 With this in mind, would running a (few) GTK apps on KDE make a large
8 difference? For instance, I am quite fond of Gaim, and even if I were
9 to try KDE, I wouldn't want to give it up (though I heard Kopette is
10 comparably capable).
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system Uwe Thiem <uwix@××××.na>