Mark <markg85@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Mark wrote: > >> > >> btw. i never understood why Linus Torvalds was so opposed to Gnome. > >> i'm beginning to understand why. > > > > How much less RAM would your system need if everything shared one window > > toolkit? And how much better could it be if all development had focused on > > just one? > Multiple toolkits is horrible but some desire it. there is no stopping > in that unless all but one change to a license that simply isn't for > linux (or closed source). Nodz. > And the biggest ram eaters and cpu eaters are all those python scripts > that keep being pushed in more and more distros (you get the point) Python (and other) scripts are usually tiny. All scripts share one copy of the interpreter binary, if that one is large it makes no real difference. And the prices of RAM and disk (and CPU) being what they are now... -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile 2340000 Fax: +56 32 2797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
