FW: GPL and LGPL question

[Matej Cepl]

Dobrý den,

zaujal mě .sig tohtoto dobrého muže a tak jsem se ho zeptal na to, co
jsem slyšel v této konferenci (totiž že KDE pracuje dobře až od 64MB).
Co vy na jeho odpověď? Nechci tady udělat flame war, jenom bych se rád
dobral toho, jak se věci mají.

				Matěj Cepl

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Martin Konold [SMTP:konold na alpha.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de]
> Sent:	Wednesday, May 19, 1999 12:59 PM
> To:	Matej Cepl
> Subject:	RE: GPL and LGPL question
> 
> On Wed, 19 May 1999, Matej Cepl wrote:
> 
> > 64MB RAM -- it's too much for me)! If it is true, that KDE would be
> as
> > bad as M$ Win 2000, which is shame. What's true on these rumours?
> 
> The KDE-1.1.1 is currently the most memory efficient KDE ever. The
> amount
> of memory KDE uses went down from version to version up to now. It
> will
> increase again with KDE-2.0 due to the use of CORBA for a lot of
> things.
> 
> The most important thing for low memory systems is to tune kde
> correctly
> for these. (This means no sound, no complex backgrounds, plain kwm
> decorations etc.)
>  
> I personally run KDE happily on my 32MB laptop without any speed
> degradiation compared to fvwm2.
> 
> Regards,
> -- martin
> 
> // Martin Konold, Herrenbergerstr. 14, 72070 Tuebingen, Germany  //
> // Email: konold na kde.org                                         //
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