Has anyone considered using crunchbanglinux.org as the ubuntu underpinings? It is a slim install that operates very nicely without a tone of the unnecisary other packages.
On May 6, 5:40 am, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > OK, I've installed Mythbuntu 10.04 on a VM and it was sailing pretty > close to the 256MB of RAM available. However, I removed > NetworkManager and a couple of other bits and pieces and it's now down > to this: > (with frontend running) 204MB used, plus 9MB swap used > (without myth frontend) 169MB used, plus 9MB swap used > > Process: > apt-get remove xscreensaver networkmanager wpagui wpasupplicant > modemmanager > > Then go to Applications - Settings - Session and Startup. I turned > off gnome services, policykit, updatenotifier, secret storage... > > I don't know how I'd get it down to 100MB, but I'm guessing this will > be good enough. I'll post back my results from the install on the atv. > > On May 5, 5:03 am, mrtisoy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > I was running Mythbuntu 8.04 on my appleTV for a couple years and had > > to upgrade when I upgraded my server to 10.04. I just assumed that > > installing a fresh copy of Mythbuntu 10.04 would be the smart thing to > > do. Maybe I should have researched a little more. > > > The install went fairly smoothly, it is up and running and > > communicating with the server. Both HD and SD content plays well > > except a blip every 5 seconds or so. I figured it had to do with the > > gpu clocking. I can't seem to set the speed through the command line > > or in a script, but it does work using the nvidia-settings GUI, but > > even then the blips continue. > > > I have seen a lot of swapping, but I was hoping that was because I was > > running other programs as well (terminal, nvidia-settings) and > > normally I would only be running the front end. > > > Does anyone have suggestions on how to "slim" it down? Or should I > > just jump to 9.04 or 9.10? > > > Thanks! > > > -- > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/atv-bootloader?hl=en > > -- > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/atv-bootloader?hl=en -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/atv-bootloader?hl=en
