>> Perhaps you're confusing X with insanely bloated "modern" "desktop >> environment"s built atop X, like KDE and Gnome? (X is not a window >> system; it's a framework for building window systems. It's possible >> to build fairly lightweight window systems in X.) > Well, well. That's X theory. X practice differs. Try to use a > couple of modern scalable fonts across the network using an xlib > application, and watch the network, CPU and RAM usage balloon.
Sure. Use bloatware and you can expect bloatware levels of resource consumption. I would never claim it's impossible to build X-using programs that are excessively resource-hungry. I merely claim it's possible to do useful work under X without doing so - my own routine-use desktop setup at one of my jobs is a SPARCstation LX with 48M. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [email protected] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
