Bloat and the hidden costs

http://suckless.org/ is one such project, and there are others scattered around (mupdf, for example). Their idea of 'usability' is rather a long way from say Gnome's, which is great for experts, but doesn't address issues such as low resource computing for all. Oh, and a nice light alternative to glibc is musl http://www.etalabs.net/musl/