On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:04 PM, John Martin<John.M.Martin at sun.com> wrote: > Anon Y Mous wrote: >> >> I hate running GNOME in OpenSolaris on old hardware anyway. It uses up a >> lot of RAM and system resources if you don't have something powerful like a >> monster Nvidia card with it's own GPU and 1/4 to 1/2 of a gig of RAM to >> power it. ... > > In parallel with investigating a light weight CDE replacement > we should also track issues with GNOME not performing well > on modestly configured systems. I test GNOME+compiz on > a 2GB W2100z + 64MB Quadro NVS 280 and while it isn't > zippy it isn't painful either.
I would concur. Once you've got into GNOME it's not too bad. But am I the only one to think that's really not good enough? After all, I remember a SPARCstation 2, and that *was* zippy. I, for one, want that zip back. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
