On Jan 06 2009, at 14:23, Chris Ball was caught saying: > Hi, > > > Now, the question I have is why we would chose GNOME over XFCE. I > > think there are significant differences in system resource > > consumption. > > We had a long thread about whether to use GNOME or XFCE on devel@ last > month. I suggested XFCE, and was persuaded that the disk image size > of DebXO+GNOME is not significantly different than DebXO+XFCE, and that > both run fine without swap, suggesting that we might be able to pull off > GNOME on Fedora. If we find it unbearable, I'm fine with using XFCE > instead, but my impression was that GNOME is preferred. > > (For the record, I'm not against investigating adding some swap for 9.1 > now that we have NAND partitioning available. We'd have to be more sure > of our estimate that it won't significantly shorten the lifespan of the > flash chip, though. What do people think?)
I think I missed the previous conversation, re: estimate , but I'm thinking that swap will have significant impact on the lifetime of the flash chip. With only 256MiB of RAM, we are bound to swap a lot. I'd feel more comfortable if we did flash-wide wear leveling using UBI and created a swap partition on to pof that. ~Deepak -- Deepak Saxena - Kernel Developer, One Laptop Per Child _____ __o (o> ------ -\<, Give One Laptop, Get One Laptop //\ ----- ( )/ ( ) http://www.amazon.com/xo V_/_ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
