Re: [TCLUG:8668] Newbie opinion question

["Clayton T. Fandre" <cfandre@maddog.mn-linux.org>]

Christopher Reid Palmer wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Clayton T. Fandre wrote:
> 
> > Personally I love Enlightenment. I have been running the CVS version
> > (pre 0.16) for over a month (8 hours a day) now without a single crash.
> 
> Well, that's great. Could you post a 'cat /proc/<E pid>/status' to the
> list, please? I'm curious, but not curious enough to download the CVS
> version. :)

cfandre@linus:/proc:498$ cat /proc/7408/status
Name:   enlightenment
State:  S (sleeping)
Pid:    7408
PPid:   7380
Uid:    2552    2552    2552    2552
Gid:    1910    1910    1910    1910
Groups: 1910 9300 77 13 8500 78 8400 
VmSize:     4860 kB
VmLck:         0 kB
VmRSS:      1624 kB
VmData:     1176 kB
VmStk:        76 kB
VmExe:       560 kB
VmLib:      2876 kB
SigPnd: 0000000000000000
SigBlk: 0000000000000000
SigIgn: 0000000000000000
SigCgt: 0000000000017eef
CapInh: 00000000fffffeff
CapPrm: 0000000000000000
CapEff: 0000000000000000


I have been updating enlightenment every morning via CVS because it is
in a code freeze, so everything new should mainly be bug fixes.

> 
> > I use many KDE apps while running gnome. Although they may look a little
> > different, they work just fine. That's the great thing about this whole
> > gnome/KDE battle; Us end-users win because of all the apps that are
> > produced.
> 
> Sure; but my concern is the massive memory overhead incurred by even one
> of the two environments; I can't imagine trying to run both and not
> pounding into swap right away. How much memory do you have?

I am running it on a PIII-500 w/ 128Megs at work, and a K5-233 w/ 64Meg
here at home. Both run fine.

> 
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> 
>   'I can't understand why people are afraid of new ideas.
>   I'm afraid of the old ones.'
>   -- John Cage
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Clay Fandre
cfandre@maddog.mn-linux.org
Twin Cities Linux Users Group
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