Let's not forget, Indiana is starting with the desktop, but will eventually also target Sparc and x86 (headless) servers. (I build my Solaris "server VMs" with 512MB, but shrink memory down to 128MB after install, so that I can run more VMs on a given host.)
Cheers, Brian P.S. - Clearly I am not using a GUI. On Nov 8, 2007 12:49 AM, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 07/11/2007, Moinak Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It is because the miniroot is 146M in size which on a 256M > > RAM system does not leave enough memory to run GNOME. > > A smaller miniroot combined with an alternative lighter > > weight WM like Xfce will be needed. > > Actually, I think it would be possible to lower this requirement to as > little as 64 to 128mb for the text installer if we actually produced a > miniroot specifically designed for "headless systems". Mind you I > don't think a system with less than 512mb is going to be terribly > usable (at least w/ a graphical desktop of any sort). > > -- > Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst > http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ > > "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all > junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics > are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall > _______________________________________________ > > indiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss > -- - Brian Gupta http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/ _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
