[PLUG] Torvalds on KDE vs. Gnome

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

Aaron Burt wrote:

>On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 06:57:16PM -0800, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
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>>From what I've seen, KDE is *significantly* more complex than Gnome, 
>>and that's not necessarily a good thing. As a matter of fact, XFCE4 is 
>>lighter than Gnome -- it's worth taking a look at IMHO.
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>Ubuntu offers a variation called XUbuntu that's XFCE-based.  I tried
>installing XUbuntu-desktop on my regular Ubuntu 5.10 system, then
>logged out of the Gnome desktop and logged into the XFCE one.  It was
>OK, if less well-polished as Gnome.  What was interesting was that
>once Firefox had pigged out on all the RAM, the difference in memory
>consumption between the two desktops was insignificant.
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>Waiting for the port of a KHTML-based browser to Gnome,
>  Aaron
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Hmmm ... how about Dillo as a browser? That's pretty lightweight, isn't 
it? Amaya?

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