On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 10:02:57PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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?
I do, but I'm not a developer, and I use compcache to help with the memory pressure (though I typed "lsjournal" a few hours (!) ago and it still hasn't unfrozen). > i _really_ think we need to make the XO base _and_ sugar be a > place that developers are comfortable living in. That'd be cool. > paul Martin PS - my only issue besides the non-inclusion of compcache ( http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/28 ) is that Terminal's backspace doesn't get processed correctly by screen otherwise I'd spend all my time in Sugar. Right now I switch between console/screen and Sugar/Browse/whatever.
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