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Re:Go is boring by slurgfest on Friday July 27, 2012 @09:32AM (#4301273)
Installing xmonad requires several hundred megs of dependencies, so what does it mean for it to be light? Low memory footprint?
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Re:Go is boring by antihero on Friday July 27, 2012 @03:19PM (#4303130)
Pretty much. Hard disk space is still cheaper than RAM, so I think it's a good tradeoff. Plus those dependencies can be used for lots of other things.
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