On Sat, Jul 04, 2009, [email protected] wrote: > Does anyone have suggestions for a low-memory setup?
As far as web browsing goes, you're stuck. There's no money to be made working on low footprint browsers and noone in the academic/open source community has picked up on the handful of fledgling, lightweight browsers and updated the rendering models to cope with modern stuff. X windows is increasingly suffering from the same issue. There's plenty of abstraction layers between the application itself and the rendering engine(s), a lot of them assume computers with accelerated hardware and/or fast memory to video display busses. Throw the same code on something with an ISA-era graphics card and you can -watch- things draw. > When I first started using Unix (1979), we were on a PDP11-70 with 32 > to 64 simultaneous users --- with 256k of real memory. I'm still > doing the same sorts of tasks: reading and writing email and news; > writing and typesetting documents, and programming. My *mobile* > *phone* has more grunt than that machine --- let alone my laptop, even > the old one I've been describing. > > I suspect there's a lot of bloat in there somewhere. Welcome to 2009. :) It is only going to get worse. Adrian -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
