Slideshow changes ?

[Keith Clark]

Why not just sense RAM/CPU the computer has and show the slideshow only 
when appropriate?

On 13-01-26 01:18 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
> Hi Aere,
>
> In the section 'Get Lubuntu' [1] we do actively encourage people with 
> low resource computers to use the Alternate install. The alternate 
> install does not require usage of terminal and is akin to a GUI (Slide 
> Show) install but without the 'pretty pictures'.
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
> 1. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/GetLubuntu
>
> On 26 January 2013 18:01, Aere Greenway <Aere at dvorak-keyboards.com 
> <mailto:Aere at dvorak-keyboards.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 01/26/2013 03:13 AM, Tracer wrote:
>
>             ----- Original Message -----
>             From: Julien Lavergne
>             Sent: 01/25/13 10:34 PM
>             To: lubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>             <mailto:lubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>             Subject: Slideshow changes ?
>             Please, if you have ideas about it, share them with us, so
>             we can see
>             what we can include in the next slideshow.
>
>
>         Answer : An OFF-button & a note.
>
>         It took me a lot of googling to figure out why lubuntu wasn't
>         installing
>         in my machine ( AMD 2400+ ) and it turned out I had to disable
>         slideshow
>         And it's worked fine after I did that. -Tracey
>
>     All:
>
>     Since a lot of people gravitate toward Lubuntu because their
>     machines are not capable of running Ubuntu and Kubuntu well
>     (because of lack of memory, and/or processor speed), I think it
>     would be a good idea to have an option of not doing the slide show.
>
>     Perhaps, even better, would be for the installer to see if there
>     is enough memory available to run it, and not load it in if there
>     wasn't, substituting a single picture (possibly the last slide of
>     the show).
>
>     But if it couldn't be done by the installer itself, at least
>     giving the user the option of skipping it if their machine doesn't
>     have a lot of memory would be a good idea.
>
>     I worry that whether the slide-show is done or not, it occupies
>     space in the installer, so the slide show would have to be
>     something that is loaded by the installer if the slide-show is
>     selected.  This worry is supported by the fact to disable the
>     slide-show, I had to actually remove the slide-show package.
>
>     In the live CD version, that slide-show is using-up memory space
>     even by its existence in the RAM file-system.
>
>     -- 
>     Sincerely,
>     Aere
>
>
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