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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 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. Its about time by laffer1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is great news. I switched from KDE about a year ago because of the newer gnome interface. (2.4+?) I run gnome on FreeBSD 5-stable and found that my biggest complaint is the memory usage. I have a dual xeon 2.0 gig with 1 gig of ram and gnome + xorg eat up at least 200-300mb of the ram. Maybe while they are at it they can fix some other problems with gnome like the fact the default stack size needs to be increased in many non linux systems when porting it!!!!!

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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.

  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. Re:horrible idea by dont_think_twice · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think this is a horrible idea. When you have to offer bounties to encourage people to alter open source, then you're basically hiring and paying programmers...Open source isn't about hiring and paying people, it's about everyone working together to make better software for themselves.

    I think you are confusing Open Source Software and Ken Kesey's Magic School Bus. One solution to this problem is for your to do way less drugs.