The karmic-alternate-powerpc.iso is a whopping 744MB. Even the i386 is slightly oversized at 702MB.
My suggestionts would be to 1) Replace gimp with mtpaint, saving about 25MB. Much as I like gimp, I don't think gimp has any place in a lightweight distro. - gimp-help-common alone is a 15MB deb. - gimp takes 7 seconds to start up on my 4GB Core 2 Duo. By comparison mtpaint is 543k deb, and is able to do all the basic stuff one needs like unsharp masks, resizing, adjusting contrast etc. It starts up instantaneously (on a Core 2 anyway). 2) Remove the gnome-user-guide packages. I understand that Xubuntu looks a lot like Gnome these days, but are these both needed and appropriate? 3) Since the language-packs should be automatically installed as required can we trim them from powerpc iso? Personally, I am happy with LANG_C :) 4) Remove the following packages: 4a: lintian (How many users really need to check debs for errors?) 4b: nautilus (Isn't that what thunar is for?) 4c: Ubiquity (why do we need ubiquity debs on the alternate CD) 4d: gnome-about (what about gnome? this is Xfce. This requires removing gnome-panel, but we have xfce4-panel) 4e: Possibly lots of other gnome things. How much of the gnome packages does Xfce really need? -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
