removing packages for edubuntu on old pcs (edubuntu for day care, philippines)

maning sambale emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com
Sat Sep 23 10:17:01 UTC 2006


Hi,

The oldest pc machine we have for our project is:

PC Celeron 333mhz, 128MB, 4.3GB Hard disk (256MB for swap), S3 4MB
Video card, 3COM LAN card, Sampo 14" monitor, NTC serial keyboard, MS
PS2 mouse.  No CD-ROM drive, no usb port, no speaker (not even an
internal).

Given the hardware restrictions, any advise which packages I need to remove?

So far I have been using xubuntu-desktop, uninstalled packages related
to sounds, cd burning, mirrored a few interesting webpages like the
Wikipedia SOS CD, CIA factbook and Vanishing Treasure of the
Philippines.  Now the total available space is only 752 MB

I feel I need to free up space by another 500MB (at least).  Which
packages should I remove?  I have been wary of removing packages with
some dependencies for Gnome (i.e. GAIM, cdrecord, etc.).

You can view the package list here:
http://cosca-dlsu-cwts.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/package_list.txt


Thanks!

Maning
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