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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. Re:Its about time by Espectr0 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Kde has improved dramatically in speed , memory reduction and html rendering in konqueror in the last year.

    You may want to give it back a try.

    We use kde in our offices, which are pentium 2, 400mhz and as little as 128mb (!) of ram.

    On my development box, i have a dual 400mhz P2 with 320mb in ram, and i can run eclipse with tomcat

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  2. Re:Its about time by roystgnr · · Score: 5, Informative

    It uses a proprietary widget toolkit

    Qt is dual licensed under the GPL. It's no longer any more proprietary than gcc.