Re:Tabby – A Terminal for the Modern Age
by touristtam on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @02:37AM
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Considering this is a basic tool the assumption isn't completely wrong to have a small footprint. Allowing to have a myriad of tools with each a memory footprint equivalent to Chrome is a recipe to hog all your RAM.
Re:Tabby – A Terminal for the Modern Age
by usrbinbash on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @04:52AM
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The wikipedia definition talks about terminals in the general sense of the word as in "something where some interface connection terminates."
In that strictest sense of the word, even an RDP client onto a windows desktop is a "terminal".
As the article points out itself however: The colloquial semantic meaning of the word, aka. what is usually meant by it, is TEXT TERMINAL.
And btw.: Even for a fully featured RDP client, I wouldn't accept a size of 200+MB. The one I use at work is barely 4MB.
According to whom? The terminal gods?
According to wikipedia:
"A terminal emulator, terminal application, or term, is a computer program that emulates a video terminal within some other display architecture. Though typically synonymous with a shell or text terminal, the term terminal covers all remote terminals, including graphical interfaces."
I don't see anything in there about "invisible in terms of resources required"