Ubuntu Followup
Posted By matt on April 28, 2008
After reloading my desktop machine (instead of an upgrade from the previous version, I did a fresh reload), I notice that thunderbird and firefox actually use less memory on that machine than on my laptop. This is likely due to some differences in builds (laptop is AMD64, desktop is i386), but can a simple architecture change account for such a large variety in memoy footprint? On my i386 machine, they use up about half as much space. I wonder if there are other optimization differences – perhaps the logic is that AMD64 machines will have more memory and thus the compiler is optimizing for speed, where in i386 it is optimizing for space? If so, this is not a bad idea, because it is the case with my machines, and on i386, it is actually using LESS space (by about half) than on the previous versions included in Gutsy.
One unfortunate thing is that FireFox 3 Beta 5 (which comes in Hardy) does not perform well via VNC, which is how I end up doing work – I have one login and then do a vnc session which I run fullscreen. This actually is more convenient than a full separate login (easier to switch back and forth), and will work well when I move my work instance to a full virtual machine. However, the performance of FF3B5 is pretty abysmal, so I've installed FF2 which works much better.
I will post my full install procedure as well as general notes when I have a chance.
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