Bob:
I think Brian is referring to devices like the Nokia 770 which
uses GNOME:
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5409534614.html
And perhaps also the One Laptop Per Child computer which also uses
GNOME and has limited CPU/memory/etc.
http://www.laptopgiving.org/en/index.php
I'm sure there are other examples, also.
Brian
> Brian Nitz wrote:
>> While I agree that memory usage for GNOME application is typically
>> higher than that for CDE, when I run prstat -srss on almost any Sun
>> Ray within our organization, the top memory users by far are
>> staroffice, firefox, the Xserver and acroread. Trimming a few meg off
>> nautilus,metacity and gnome-panel is worthwhile and fixing leaks to
>> the X server is especially important. But if you really want the
>> typical memory footprint of CDE back in the Solaris 7 days, you'd trim
>> much more bloat by replacing firefox with mosaic and going back to and
>> older soffice and acroread. I don't think anyone wants that.
>>
>> Nokia, OLPC and similar embedded users of gnome components have
>> requirements more closely aligned with Sun's ultathin client customers
>> so more people are looking at memory footprint. (I've been tracking
>> it build to build) Firefox 3.0s memory footprint looks like it will
>> be significantly smaller and those of us running Gnome 2.20 on Sun Ray
>> instead of Gnome 2.6 (same hardware) do it to "fly our own airplanes",
>> but we also do it because it seems to have better performance.
>>
>> Still, I agree that "bells and whistles" eye candy Gnome will have to
>> diverge from thin-client Gnome, especially now that alpha blending and
>> other 3D graphics card features are being utilized.
>>
>
> This is interesting. Are there any plans for such divergence? I have
> never heard of a "thin-client Gnome" before.
>
> -Bob
>
