Re: Netscape and Gnome

[mawarkus t-online de (Matthias Warkus)]

+++ Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 09:21:55AM -0400 +++
Steve Homer e-mails me. Film at 11. Reply right now, after the break.
> Are there any plans to fix this at any stage, I assume the large memory
> usage is unnecessary. I have the luxury of 196mb, but the idea that the
> small tight Linux system is being diluted with Microsoft techniques is
> unpleasant.
> 
> Please don't get me wrong I think Gnome is fantastic!
> 
> Steve.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nils Jeppe [mailto:nils@jeppe.de]
> Sent: 22 April 1999 14:11
> To: mark@hoist.nlcomm.com
> Cc: "recipient.list.not.shown"
> Subject: Re: Netscape and Gnome
> 
> 
> 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 ;-)

I run Gnome on an AMD K6/2 at 400 MHz, with 64 MB of RAM. I don't know
how it could be snappier. Perhaps it's not just a memory issue?

mawa
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