Le 2013-03-24 07:20, Orchid Win7 v1 a écrit :
> On 24/03/2013 12:41 AM, Francois Labreque wrote:
>> Le 2013-03-21 18:03, Orchid Win7 v1 a écrit :
>>> If you run Debian (which has no special optimisations for such
>>> hardware), you find that it crawls along alarmingly slowly. I mean, slow
>>> to the point that you can't tell if the OS is actually functioning or
>>> not. Twenty minutes for GNOME to start!
>>
>> What else did you expect from loading X11 with a heavy window manager on
>> top of it on a system that only has 2 MB of ram?
>>
>> You'd need at least 8MB to start X11 with a lightweight window manager
>> without having it trip over itself in the process.
>
> Why? What does it need so much RAM for?
>

Because the X11 specification is device-independent, so there's a few 
layers more required to deal with that, on top of it, it's a 
cleint/server environment, so it adds even more layers of code, whereas 
the AmigaOS UI is device-dependant and tied a few graphics chips with 
limited capabilities.


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