On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 11:58:52AM +0800, Orlando Andico wrote:
> It won't help. The problem with both GNOME and KDE is that they have a
> sh*tload of shared libraries, so saving 2MB by using icewm instead of KWM
> or Sawfish doesn't really go very far.
> 
> If you only have 32MB to 48MB, forget KDE or GNOME. There's no getting
> around it. Use something cheap like XFCE and uninstall all your KDE or
> GNOME apps. Pure Gtk+ apps (not GNOME) are OK, Gtk+ is a fairly
> lightweight library.
> 
> Remember that loading an innocuous program like "gmix" (GNOME audio mixer)
> will bring in that whole trainload of shared libraries.


yup, I trashed my 128MB box compiling gabber, a C++ Jabber client, under
GNOME.  of course it didn't help that 'cc1' was chewing 60MB.
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