On: A Memory Comparison of Light Linux Desktops

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Getting rid of mysqld and the file indexer should make KDE run in just under 100 megs. Decent for what it provides.

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Wow, I thought this was a bad joke about KDE being bloated. It is not, KDE actually requires a local mysqld instance for PIM data:

http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2009/02/19/kde-42-bring...

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Yeah, initially it gave me a real heartburn but given the state of Gnome 3 I decided to live with it! Some enterprising programmer should really rewrite from scratch a light weight but functional Exchange/IMAP client and calendar app. Heck I wouldn't mind taking the Android code and using Java UI bindings for KDE if that's what it takes :)

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For the uninitiated, PIM apparently stands for personal information management (calendar, address book, etc).