On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Morgan Collett wrote: > On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 18:37, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> CCing the Sugar list. >> >> It seems that one of the problems we will be encountering with generic >> spins is footprint. Even a standard Ubuntu without Sugar was seeming >> too fat to load from a LiveCD on a Pentium 4 with 256K of DRAM. >> Although we didn't try it, I expect Fedora would present similar >> challenges. I don't know how feasible it is to make a lean Fedora for >> these use cases: Maybe the subset of packages we grab for the OLPC >> image only. I defer to the magic that Dennis and Greg can yield. >> Meanwhile, it is probably worth looking at some of the purposefully >> small distros, such as TinyLinux, to see how bloated they get when we >> build Sugar on top of them. It may be a good interim-term solution. >> >> -walter > > In the Ubuntu case, it's worth mentioning that Xubuntu > (http://www.xubuntu.org/) is a derivative that replaces GNOME with > XFCE which is a much more lightweight window manager, and the default > apps are also modified to include less resource intensive ones. Often > education setups on older hardware use Xubuntu instead of Ubuntu, and > it's worth using for Sugar LiveCDs too.
Sebastian has already built a slimmer version of the Fedora/Sugar Live spin, and is working on getting it integrated into a Windows-based installer. Sugar is intended to be a first-class citizen starting with F10. --g _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
