On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 5:35 AM, Lucio Lastra <[email protected]> wrote:
> 4) Before I built this .iso I downloaded and tried Alfredo's 3.2.2 > version. The point is that when you boot it up it consumes around > 510 Mibs RAM (you can check it typing "free" at the command > line). After you drop caches (as root in the terminal "echo 3 > > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches") it sticks around 310 Mibs RAM and > that's it, unless you start killing processes it won't get lower. This is something that could have been addressed, if some feedback had been provided. > That's one of the reasons it uses fluxbox and not xfce and when it > boots up consumes around 382 Mibs and after you drop the caches > it sticks in 215 Mibs. That's also why the menu is so minimal, I > swear even my grandma could run sage and not get lost among > the icons and that kind of stuff. Also one of the coolest things about > fluxbox is that you can mod the menu as you want and it does > reflect the changes just after you saved the "menu" file. The previous version *never* ran in xfce. The 3.4 version is the first one. The previous version uses the power hungry Ubuntu. The current 3.4 version consumes 404MB after booting. The menu creation is trivial because you *dont* have to edit files. My ideal distro for a LiveCD would be Arch, which I can probably have with a *full* desktop (gnome or KDE) with 300 MB. > Finally don't worry about plagiarism, the construction of my .iso > is based upon a total different process than Alfredo's. You can see > the whole instructions to build it in the "sagelwlcd.tar.gz" file which > can be downloaded from the link I posted you in point 3) The process to build the LiveCD with linux live scripts is the simplest I have found. It makes it trivial to make a LiveCD. Plus it contains a custom kernel to deal with no open source wireless cards drivers, etc. Again my points are not to discourage anybody to find better ways, but it would have been nice some feedback. Regards, Alfredo --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
