RAM Usage During Installation of Lubuntu

[Aere Greenway]

On 06/16/2013 01:36 PM, Jonathan Marsden wrote:
> I think asking people to use the "Install Lubuntu" menu item on the
> desktop image is fine, as it is not difficult, and indeed is even
> logical, since that is exactly what they want to do:)
>
> I think asking people with lower RAM machines to use the Alternate
> Install CD is also fine, as it is no more difficult than using ubiquity,
> just less pretty.
Jonathan:

I totally agree with you.  We cannot expect typical users to do 
complicated things.  Even asking them to enter commands in a terminal is 
too much to expect.

The only problem with using the alternate install, is having to download 
yet another CD image, which can take a significant amount of time with 
slower Internet speed, and could cost you money if your Internet 
provider has a limit on Internet usage, after-which they charge you more.

If there is a way we can get it to work with the live CD (as appears to 
be the case in the "zRAM and Live CD" e-mail stream), that would be a 
good thing.

It's nice to first try-out the live CD on a new system level to see if 
it works on your hardware, and to try-out the new system.

As a case illustrating that point, trying out the live CD on what 2 
months ago was my primary machine suggested that I could no longer use 
that machine going forward, because its Intel graphics was no longer 
supported.  It turned out, after installing 13.04, that I could no 
longer even watch YouTube videos on it, though it was a fairly modern 
machine (a Dell Dimension 1100, 2.5 gigahertz, 1 gigabytes RAM, but no 
AGP slot for a NVIDIA card).

-- 
Sincerely,
Aere