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Bounties for Gnome Optimization

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the that's-a-really-good-idea dept.

Eugenia writes "Novell and OSNews are sponsoring the memory reduction project led by Novell's Ben Mauer by providing bounties to developers to help to clean up bloat in GNOME and related programs."

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  1. Gnome Optimization by Decaffeinated+Jedi · · Score: 5, Funny

    I tried to optimize my gnome once with a suit of +2 leather armor and a new red hat, but he still ended up getting slain by a bunch of kobolds.

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    1. Re:Gnome Optimization by game+kid · · Score: 2, Funny

      Maybe he refused to make friends with the penguin and the nautilus in the party.

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    2. Re:Gnome Optimization by TrixX · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's because you used a Red Hat. You could have had better luck if you had bought him a Fedora.

  2. Next Bounties by buckhead_buddy · · Score: 4, Funny

    And the next set of bounties will be offered for cleaning up bugs introduced by rapidly encouraging people motivated only by money to make changes to Gnome without fully considering the ramifications of these memory reductions. :-)

  3. Feasable Career? by dingo · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder if there will ever be enough bounty's on offer to make a career out of it.

    I can just see all the coder bounty hunters with their boba fett helmets on.

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  4. bloat in gnome... by mickyflynn · · Score: 3, Funny

    'cause a bloated gnome is just a hobbit... which is actually cooler.

  5. -1, Not Sufficient Geeky by ggvaidya · · Score: 4, Funny

    In The Hobbit, gnomes were used to refer to the Noldor, but Tolkein changed that because of the stereotype gnome being short-and-fat and very unelvish (in the Tolkein universe). An overweight Noldor would look a lot like an overweight human. And, if the movies are to be believed, very gay, but I'm not buying that ...

  6. Lies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    > Yeah, because GNOME is only developed by volunteer
    > hermits living in caves at the moment. It's not
    > like there are big companies paying developers'
    > salaries to work on it or anything.

    GNOME isn't developed by hermits. Let's clear this up:
    * GNOME is obviously developed by Gnomes (duh) and Simians
    * KDE is obviously developed by Trolls (and Dragons)
    * BeOS is obviously developed by colonial insects
    * GNUstep is obviously developed by Dancing GNUs
    * OS X is obviously developed by the porn industry

    And BTW, gnomes don't need no stinkin salaries. Just give them enough underwear and a TV to watch South Park and they'll be happy.

  7. Re:cat Gnome /dev/null by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Isn't that the Gnome2.x manual?

    You mean the gnome project aims for people not unix-knowledgeable to use a GUI? The horror!

  8. Re:While they are at it ... by Lispy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, give them pills instead of bounty. ;)

  9. Re:Its about time by Knnniggit · · Score: 3, Funny

    Easy. Just buy a 64MB chip and break it in half like a graham cracker.

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  10. Re:Its about time by Pseudonym · · Score: 2, Funny

    I run it in 640kb which, after all, should be enough for anybody.

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