On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 20:37:20 +0100 Phill Whiteside <phi...@phillw.net> wrote:
> Hiyas, > > just my 2 cents worth. > > <start rant> > Lubuntu does not need a 'fancy' boot screen, it delays the booting and uses > resources on older (as in low spec RAM / CPU) machines. Lubuntu is > *not* Xubuntu, > and we should never try to be so. I've just had a report that the cd does > not want to work with our previous minimal RAM setting for using Ubiquity of > 160MB. The slide shows in ubiquity may have caused a problem, or Ubiquity > may have gotten more bloated. I am only reporting back what has been > reported. > > How are we to spread lubuntu, that needs 128MB of RAM if you cannot install > it unless you have something like 256MB? > Some findings, relating to installation. With a video card the latest beta installs with 160 MiB on a 700MHz machine but, very slowly, around four hours . Some 8 hours quicker than OpenSUSE LXDE. At 384 MiB Lubuntu is down to just under 2 hours, some 8 hours quicker than OpenSUSE LXDE, while Fedora takes just an hour. For some reason more than 256MiB of RAM is needed for Lubuntu to install with Intel on board video. I think we need a text based installer. I’ll experiment a bit more, if my patience doesn’t run out :) -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
