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Shared libraries

Posted Nov 25, 2025 20:27 UTC (Tue) by Whyte (subscriber, #161914)
In reply to: Shared libraries by Cyberax
Parent article: APT Rust requirement raises questions

Did your test also include KDE or GNOME?

That's the part I don't ever see happening, since the libraries supporting those are huge.

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Shared libraries

Posted Nov 26, 2025 2:38 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

No, it used its own display manager. That was pretty snappy but limited.

I think that these days, graphics library problem can be solved by moving the UI into Electron-like shells, with a shared browser layer. And custom native code can be called via IPC. This in theory can provide even more optimizations, like pre-forked initialized shell that can be forked up without waiting for it to load (like the 'zygote' process in Android).

BTW, the browser doesn't have to be Chromium. Servo would be great for this purpose.