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Re: [News] Linux is Lighter and Easier Than Windows, Says Major Paper

After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out this bit o' wisdom:

> What about the performance and memory usage of KDE and GNOME?
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | In this particular test, KDE and some typical KDE applications were
> | found to consume 143.2 MB of RAM. GNOME and comparable GNOME
> | applications consumed 174.8 MB. XFCE and some third-party
> | applications comparable to the ones used for GNOME and KDE
> | consumed 206.8 MB of RAM.
> `----
>
> http://pinderkent.blogsavy.com/archives/35

I don't quite buy his numbers.  XFce, taking up more RAM than the other
two?  Even with both the KDE and Gnome support enabled in XFce, I don't
think I'd buy that comparison.  Needs some more details provided.

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