Xubuntu

[John Richard Moser]

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Jani Monoses wrote:
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> Wiki page:  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu

I noticed you're trying to avoid using gnome-libs.  Although not as
purist, it may be possible to use a smaller set of libraries.  If I
recall right (from building Gentoo), Gnome applications require pretty
much a small Gnome library that supplies added widgets and the Gnome
print/save/open dialogs.  Full Gnome brings along a lot of other
libraries, programs, applets, and files that atke up lots of space.

Programs may rely on "gnome components" like gstreamer or libgucharmap
explicitely because they use them for audio or for supplying a unicode
character map widget.  Although these come from the Gnome project, a lot
of them (like gstreamer) are more like generic libraries.  IIRC, LibXML
and LibXML2 are both Gnome libraries.

So the question may rise:  Is there a significant detriment to utilizing
Gnome enhancements for Xubuntu?  If it's one or two libraries and the
memory usage from this doesn't ramp up, I'd say look into it; if it's a
lot of libraries, around a hundred or so megs of added space usage,
and/or several tens of megs of added RAM used, get rid of it.

Me, I'm just curious as to the technical merits on either side.  I'm
sticking with Gnome (although Xubuntu may be nice for LiveCDs in any
configuration).
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