Re: GNOME woes on the XO / A modest proposal

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On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 12:00 -0400, Ty wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 21:24 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Steven Salevan wrote:
> > > GNOME may indeed be more familiar to users, but what use is familiarity 
> > > if there's no functionality?  At least XFCE can run comfortably on the 
> > > limited resources of the XO, allowing us to focus on the issues that we 
> > > can indeed address in the limited time we have.  What do you guys think?
> > 
> > Have you actually tested Xfce on XO to see if it performs better?
> 
> it performs a ton better, i followed these directions:
> http://bc.tech.coop/blog/080130.html 

... and congratulations, you've tested something which is entirely
different.

The big problem *ISN'T* GNOME vs XFCE.  The problem is the (large) hit
we take on performance with squashfs decompression.  So with the snap1
images, things have been changed a bit so that we can instead use the
ext3fs and take decompression out of it.  Which makes an impressive
amount of difference

Jeremy

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