Which Free Linux Desktop Is Best? (CRN)

Which Free Linux Desktop Is Best? (CRN)

Posted Aug 25, 2006 8:47 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Which Free Linux Desktop Is Best? (CRN) by micampe
Parent article: Which Free Linux Desktop Is Best? (CRN)

It might be an interesting experiment, just like when people optimized every single bit on old 64k machines, or like (but certainly less so) how they do now on embedded systems.

Old 64K machines are HUGE when you are comparing them with modern embedded systems. I've seen AES implementation squized in 256 bytes! Of course it's very expensive and just stupid to do so when you are working with full-sized system with megabutes of RAM, but it's still good idea to limit amount of code (and features) as much as possible... Today KDE and GNOME are using 10 times more resources then Windows95 used - and offer very few exhancements over it. It's just stupid. Yes, M$ also does it - but that's not the point...

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