marco pesenti gritti wrote: > On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > CCing the Sugar list.
and adding devel. > > > > 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. > > I'm planning to dogfood the Fedora LiveUSB and I'll have a look to > memory usage while doing so. In principle, unless there are relevant > memory costs given by running on a LiveUSB, I'd expect it to work > decently. i've been curious for a while -- can we have a show of hands for how many people dogfood the existing XO s/w? for my part, i don't, to the extent that i yum-install xfce and run that. so there's little memory pressure, and i don't run activities, nor networkmanager. but i'm still running the kernel and most of the system software. i can quickly switch to running sugar, and i do, when i discover something that i think needs investigating on a more "real" installation. i think even my limited "dogfooding" has been useful -- the bugs i've found or helped diagnose have tended to be power management issues, and some yum package management issues. i _really_ think we need to make the XO base _and_ sugar be a place that developers are comfortable living in. our needs aren't quite the same as a school kid's, but i think there's a much bigger overlap than we often think. with the advent of the fedora spin we're going to lose xo/sugar mindshare among our g1g1 and development users [1], and i think we need to think seriously about taking up that slack. even if that means adding some "poweruser"-centric features which a grade-schooler would probably never use, it's worth considering, in return for the increased focus, and yes, discomfort it may cause. paul [1] but i think we'll gain in overall project mindshare, so in net i'm in favor of it. =--------------------- paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
