FC3 sucks. It takes up too much memory!

[Gain Paolo Mureddu]

Edward Yang wrote:

> I am *not* exagerating. Please look at the attached screenshot for detail:
>
> 1. I think eggcups is the process for printing. Why it takes up more 
> than 40mb memory? On Windows 2000, the spooler printing service takes 
> up only a little more than 4mb memory and less than 3mb virtual memory.
>
> 2.  And, eggcups belongs to my session. I am not familiar with the 
> terminal concept. I guess if a user logs on thru a dumb terminal, 
> he/she will get his/her own eggcups; and 40mb memory will reduced from 
> the server. Is my guess true?
>
> 3. If I 'kill nnn', where nnn is the pid of eggcups, it somehow 
> respawns. How can I stop this? Anyway I don't want printing service 
> right now, I am just learning programming on Linux.
>
> 4. I don't want xscreensaver, because I am running FC3 inside 
> Microsoft Virtual PC. How to stop it?
>
> 5. What is gnome-vfs/esd? Are they a must to for a user session?
>
> Please forgive me if my post aroused some kind of holy debate. I come 
> from Windows world, it's inevitable for me to compare Linux/FC with 
> Windows. But I will appreciate very much if someone can help me, 
> instead of just saying 'Only newbies don't understand' or even 'Only 
> morons don't understand'.
>
1. eggcups is this http://freshmeat.net/projects/eggcups/
2. already answered.
3. It has a keep alive.
4. Simply go into its configuration and select blank screen or disable 
(apps-->prefs-->screensaver)
5. Those are two totally different things: gnome-vfs is the gnome 
virtual filsesystem, so you can access FTP, SSH, SMB, etc volumes with 
it... ESD is the Enlightened Sound Daemon... Back in the days where 
sound cards did not do HW mixing a software mixer was needed, and this 
was the inherited sound server for the GNOME Dekstop.

I won't point out anything with the incident about Trolling... I to some 
extent understand your surprise... However I can understand the reaction 
from many of the regulars upon the "FC3 sucks" part... I think this 
thread will serve us all to remember that violence only produces more 
violence, and that statement was a violent one. I won't go further into 
this... Pretty much everyone who was willing to has expressed thier 
minds, and this issue should be put behind us all.

My 2 ¢. Peace.

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