Yes.
Brian Cameron wrote:
>
> Bob:
>
> I think Brian is referring to devices like the Nokia 770 which
> uses GNOME:
>
> http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5409534614.html
>
> And perhaps also the One Laptop Per Child computer which also uses
> GNOME and has limited CPU/memory/etc.
>
> http://www.laptopgiving.org/en/index.php
>
> I'm sure there are other examples, also.
>
> Brian
>
>
>> Brian Nitz wrote:
>>> While I agree that memory usage for GNOME application is typically
>>> higher than that for CDE, when I run prstat -srss on almost any Sun
>>> Ray within our organization, the top memory users by far are
>>> staroffice, firefox, the Xserver and acroread. Trimming a few meg
>>> off nautilus,metacity and gnome-panel is worthwhile and fixing leaks
>>> to the X server is especially important. But if you really want the
>>> typical memory footprint of CDE back in the Solaris 7 days, you'd
>>> trim much more bloat by replacing firefox with mosaic and going back
>>> to and older soffice and acroread. I don't think anyone wants that.
>>>
>>> Nokia, OLPC and similar embedded users of gnome components have
>>> requirements more closely aligned with Sun's ultathin client
>>> customers so more people are looking at memory footprint. (I've
>>> been tracking it build to build) Firefox 3.0s memory footprint
>>> looks like it will be significantly smaller and those of us running
>>> Gnome 2.20 on Sun Ray instead of Gnome 2.6 (same hardware) do it to
>>> "fly our own airplanes", but we also do it because it seems to have
>>> better performance.
>>>
>>> Still, I agree that "bells and whistles" eye candy Gnome will have
>>> to diverge from thin-client Gnome, especially now that alpha
>>> blending and other 3D graphics card features are being utilized.
>>>
>>
>> This is interesting. Are there any plans for such divergence? I have
>> never heard of a "thin-client Gnome" before.
>>
>> -Bob
>>
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