Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 15th Sep 2003 20:37 UTC
Today we feature a very interesting interview with Havoc Pennington. Havoc works for Red Hat, he is heading the desktop team, while he is well known also for his major contributions to GNOME, his GTK+ programming book, plus the freedesktop.org initiative which aims to standardize the X11 desktop environments. In the following interview we discuss about the changes inside Red Hat, Xouvert, freedesktop.org and Gnome's future, and how Linux, in general, is doing in the desktop market.
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Is a really dumb idea for the general case. Everyone dings X11 for its efficiency, generally by looking at top and crying in horror at how much RAM X is taking up, not realizing that a lot of that RAM usage reported isn't real, but rather is memory maps from the video card's on-board video ram. To the extent that X11 does use a lot of memory, it's because the programs running against X11 are storing a lot of graphics resources in the X server.. if those processes had to do their own graphics rendering operations in-process, all of those processes would be taking up more RAM.
There's a lot that could be done to improve X11, but I'd like to see it done in the form of enchancements to the XFree86 product. Ditching the hundreds of megabytes of /usr/X11R6 means ditching the thousands of historical X applications, for no defensible reason.
Note that whining about Imake is not a defensible reason.
IMHO.