Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Jan 2006 02:29:41 +0100 | From | Diego Calleja <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] VM: I have a dream... |
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El Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:28:34 -0500, Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> escribió:
> > Mozilla / Firefox / Opera in particular. 300MB is not funny on a > > laptop which cannot be expanded beyond 192MB. Are there any usable > > graphical _small_ web browsers around? Usable meaning actually works > > on real web sites with fancy features. > > "Small" and "fancy features" are not compatible. > > That's the problem with the term "usable" - to developers it means > "supports the basic core functionality of a web browser" while to users > it means "supports every bell and whistle that I get on Windows".
That'd be a interesting philosophical (and somewhat offtopic) flamewar: It's is theorically possible to write a operative system with bells and whistles for a computer with 200 MB of ram? 200 MB is really a lot of ram....I'm really surprised at how easy is to write a program that eats a docen of MB of ram just by showing a window and a few buttons.
In my perfect world, a superhero (say, Linus ;) would analyze and redesign the whole software stack and would fix it. IMO some parts of a complete gnu linux system have been accumulating fat with the time, ej: plan 9's network abstraction could make possible to kill tons of networking code from lot of apps... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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