Bloat and the hidden costs
Bloat and the hidden costs
Posted Jan 26, 2012 9:11 UTC (Thu) by fuhchee (guest, #40059)In reply to: Bloat and the hidden costs by jmorris42
Parent article: An LCA 2012 summary
Good point. But what now? What FOSS projects are trying to shrink resource consumption - other than a certain web browser to go from absurd to merely ridiculous?
Posted Jan 26, 2012 11:30 UTC (Thu)
by njwhite (guest, #51848)
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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/