From: Adam Flinton 

Tony Ingenoso wrote:
> Chunky?
>
> OS/2 1.2 was "chunky" compared to OS/2 1.3.
>
> Gnome sets the gold standard for a whole new category of bloat and sloth .
> Even KDE, which has a very bad case of kitchen-sink-itis, seems a hotrod by
> comparason.  Gnome can drive a machine with 128M right to its knees trashing
> even if you're not running anything.  I use KDE every day on a machine with
> 64M and it survives OK running Moz, GCC and several xterms.
>

I should point out that I use KDE (except on media machines where it is
much better when setting large print themes & other TV specific display
stuff).

This is written on Moz on KDE but if constrained I like IceWM or Windowmaker.

Adam

> "Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
> news:429f40e2$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>>Tony Ingenoso wrote:
>>
>>>Probably trying to twist their arm to get some performance work done.
>
> Gnome
>
>>>is an egregious pig.
>>>
>>
>>It is a bit chunky.
>>
>>Adam
>
>

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