Marc
On 4/14/05, Ovidiu Lixandru <ovidiu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Robert F. Chapman wrote:
> I have been keeping up with the Fedora Releases since FC1 and I have
> noticed that in FC1,2,3 Gnome is very sluggish compared to RH9.0.
> Things like opening a terminal can take 10 - 15 seconds. Running
> Programs take just as long. It's kinda hard to convince Windows XP
> users they need to move, when GNOME is performing poorly.
GNOME is getting more bloated by the day. It's a shame FC moved XFce
into Extras, as far as I'm concerned GNOME 2.x should have been there.
Anyway, a functional solution (replacement more likely) is XFce. It runs
very smoothly on a P3@1GHz w/ 512MB of RAM and a 64MB GeForce MX440. The
memory usage dropped after full desktop environment startup by 80MB (!),
applications start and "feel" much faster (I heavily use Firefox and
GAIM and there's a big difference to GNOME) and even non-related apps
are snappier (i.e. Java-based jEdit).
Hopefully, GNOME 3 will get rebuilt from scratch and learn a bit from
its younger brother. Until then, bye bye GNOME.
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Ovidiu Lixandru
linux360
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