Linked by David Adams on Wed 16th Apr 2008 15:34 UTC, submitted by LinucksGirl
The Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) runs Linux, but getting it to run well requires some tweaking. In the third and final article of this series on PS3 Linux Peter Seebach talks about ways to get X11 slimmed down to fit on a smaller memory budget.
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RE: It's sad to see people sticking with X Windows
by sbergman27 on Thu 17th Apr 2008 13:19
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The bloatedness of X has long been a problem that few are willing to even address.
It's sad to see people repeating the same old "X is bloated" myths with no evidence to support them. Prove to me, with evidence, that X is bloated. And then explain to me, if any of these other efforts to replace X are so good... why is it that not a one of them has a user base worth talking about? Could it possibly be, despite the misinformation that some choose to spread, that they are really just solutions in search of a problem?
Edited 2008-04-17 13:20 UTC
RE[2]: It's sad to see people sticking with X Windows
by helf on Thu 17th Apr 2008 13:28
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Member since:2005-07-06
What they probably mean is that X itself isn't really "bloated", it's just the implementations of the protocol that are sorely lacking in the speed department.
Granted, if you have decent drivers and a fast enough cpu, they more or less run fine. But you start paring down the power of the computer and things start to lag more.
I haven't ran any of the Xs in awhile though, All my machines either don't have enough RAM or "Linux" doesn't support their hardware well... So I'm screwed no matter what 
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The bloatedness of X has long been a problem that few are willing to even address.
One guy however has done so with FramebufferUI...
Here...
http://home.comcast.net/~fbui/
And ...
http://home.comcast.net/~fbui/fwe.html
And note that although there are several windowing systems for the Linux frame buffer, this is the only one that is deliberately small.