Comments on: The Other Desktop: Running Xfce http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4404/ Open Source, Open Standards Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:13:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Don Juan http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4404/#comment-630 Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:01:37 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4404/#comment-630 I started using xfce on an old gentoo 2005.0 mainly because compiling KDE for five days wasn't an option. I really liked xfce and as Pravat Santra said, there are particular uses where a solution can be better than others, but today with PC's running 2-4Gb of RAM, I couldn't care less about memory or CPU usage. Anyway, just today I've read this: http://ktown.kde.org/~seli/memory/desktop_benchmark.html It's a benchmark about memory usage of the different Desktop Managers I started using xfce on an old gentoo 2005.0 mainly because compiling KDE for five days wasn’t an option. I really liked xfce and as Pravat Santra said, there are particular uses where a solution can be better than others, but today with PC’s running 2-4Gb of RAM, I couldn’t care less about memory or CPU usage.
Anyway, just today I’ve read this:
http://ktown.kde.org/~seli/memory/desktop_benchmark.html
It’s a benchmark about memory usage of the different Desktop Managers

]]> by: Dan Gheorghe Somnea http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4404/#comment-627 Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:14:17 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4404/#comment-627 Hello, I've appreciated this white paper. I send you this hyperlink: http://www.google.com/search?q=Running+XFce+Linux%27s+greatest+strengths+is+that+it%27s+easily+customized&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7IRFA As you can see, webinars can easily enter this Linux Magazine Connection's DB of white papers. Mr Martin Streicher, the former Linux Magazine Connection's editor-in-chief, gave me some login parameters to read a white paper. Sincerely yours, prof dr ing Dan Gheorghe Somnea, Bucharest ROMANIA http://dansomnea.tripod.com/whoami.html Hello,
I’ve appreciated this white paper.
I send you this hyperlink:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Running+XFce+Linux%27s+greatest+strengths+is+that+it%27s+easily+customized&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7IRFA

As you can see, webinars can easily enter this Linux Magazine Connection’s DB of white papers.
Mr Martin Streicher, the former Linux Magazine Connection’s editor-in-chief, gave me some login parameters to read a white paper.
Sincerely yours,
prof dr ing Dan Gheorghe Somnea,
Bucharest ROMANIA
http://dansomnea.tripod.com/whoami.html

]]> by: register hater http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4404/#comment-625 Fri, 23 Nov 2007 05:34:23 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4404/#comment-625 Is it really that little? I'm running XFCE 4.4 right now and if feels a lot more memory intensive than ~30 MB. Is it really that little? I’m running XFCE 4.4 right now and if feels a lot more memory intensive than ~30 MB.

]]> by: Krzysztof Zurek http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4404/#comment-621 Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:08:07 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4404/#comment-621 Xfce is light because it needs less CPU power. My Duron 800 is too slow for GNOME but Xfce runs great! Even beter then Windowmaker. Xfce is light because it needs less CPU power. My Duron 800 is too slow for GNOME but Xfce runs great! Even beter then Windowmaker.

]]> by: Pravat Santra http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4404/#comment-620 Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:16:18 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4404/#comment-620 Hai Roderick, It's not about "Xfce's 28 MB of RAM vs 30 MB for KDE Vs 41 MB for GNOME". We run it on Production Servers mainly because at a larger scale, when you have 50+ user using a XWindow over remote display, XFCE is too smooth and saves hell lot of memory... It might not be EyeCandy for common desktop dudes but our Developers love it... Hai Roderick,

It’s not about “Xfce’s 28 MB of RAM vs 30 MB for KDE Vs 41 MB for GNOME”.

We run it on Production Servers mainly because at a larger scale, when you have 50+ user using a XWindow over remote display, XFCE is too smooth and saves hell lot of memory…

It might not be EyeCandy for common desktop dudes but our Developers love it…

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