GNOME woes on the XO / A modest proposal

[Ty]

On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 13:06 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 13:03 -0400, Ty wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 11:23 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > > > > Have you actually tested Xfce on XO to see if it performs better?
> > > > 
> > > > it performs a ton better, i followed these directions:
> > > > http://bc.tech.coop/blog/080130.html 
> > > 
> > > ... and congratulations, you've tested something which is entirely
> > > different.
> > 
> > i realized that, i just didnt know if it was the hardware that was the
> > bottleneck or not. 
> 
> Yeah, but the problem is you're comparing apples and oranges to
> determine the bottleneck.  If you want to know if XFCE performs better,
> then you need to test it in the same environment.

definitely, what i originally said was incorrect. 

> 
> Which either means a) using an XFCE live image built the same way as the
> GNOME ones and doing your comparison there or b) installing GNOME onto
> the nand from a yum repo and comparing _that_ to XFCE installed that
> way.
> 
> Jeremy
> 
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