Comments on: In LInux, you can…

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:17:52 +0000

Hank: I would venture to guess that the totality of the libraries you would need to run to operate a KDE app in a gnome environment is still less in bulk (memory demand, etc.) and problems than running your average windows app normally. This is just a guess, of course. I have not done this in about a year, and I suppose it is possible that things have changed that much since then, given the rapid development in some areas.Also, in Linux, the support software for a particular app is generally unloaded when it is not used. That would be normal for any particular system, except of course Windows which requires turning off the computer, wiping the hard drive, reinstalling the system, then installing several service releases, all while swinging a dead chicken around over your head at just the right number of rotations per minute, to get the memory back.

By: Hank

Hank — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:11:17 +0000

The problem, of course, is if you want to mix and match applications that use the respective toolkits of the major desktop environments. I’ve used gnome for quite awhile, but there are still “just that one” KDE app that leads to a mass of support libraries being loaded. It’s not just GTK or QT anymore.Anyway, being able to tune your system for a particular task is a good point for Linux/BSD indeed.

By: Rob Knop

Rob Knop — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:04:14 +0000

FVWM for the win!It’s what I used back in 1995. After playing around with gnome for a few years, I’m back to it. I like it better than anything else I’ve mucked with.