Gnome vs. X? (was [oclug] can someone explain this?)

[Bart Trojanowski]

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, David F. Skoll wrote:
>
> There is a port of gdk to the frame buffer, but it is intended for
> embedded systems.  I don't think any mainstream GNOME developers are
> seriously considering bypassing X.  X has proven to be an amazingly
> useful, robust, flexible system, and I don't think it should be
> dismissed lightly.

I have heard one group of people get excited here: those with laptops and
low memory who want to use apps like OpenOffice (StarOffice written in
GTK+).  They would be able to have a full blown office suite running
without the memory hog that is X.

Don't get me wrong, I am a big fan of X but if you only have 48 megs of
memory and want to use any office package these days you free up as much
memory as you can.

B.

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