Re: Netscape and Gnome

[Nils Jeppe <nils jeppe de>]

On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 mark@hoist.nlcomm.com wrote:

> an incredible memory hog... it drives me nuts on my machine with
> 90 megs of RAM; I can't imagine the pain of running it with 16 megs.

Well, I ran my P60 using 40MB and 64MB. 64 is okay most of the time...
unless you want to run Gnome, Netscape, StarOffice, and a kernel compile
at the same time ;-)

> Note: the only worse memory hog than Gnome is Netscape - NS is

Actually in my experience That Other GUI For Linux is a bit more memory
inetnsive ;)

> For low memory systems I use QVWM or WindowMaker and avoid
> netscape....

WindowMaker is a good choice :-) And it's just sooooo beautiful :-)

To the original poster - if you run E on that machine, then you should
really not be surprised :)


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