Kernel Optimization Selection In Breezy Installer

[Alexandre Strube]

On Qua, 2005-08-31 at 19:33 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:

> > I would even swear the optimizations are neglictible for those same 
> > people, not to say almost all. 
> You'll find me heartily agree if it's about gentoo and people ricing
> gedit. But the kernel is another matter IMHO. On an old laptop of mine
> (AMD K6, but still perfectly usable) it makes the difference between
> being able to watch videos or not.

How much speed improvement we are talking about?

Ubuntu uses gnome, which has quite heavy requirements. Does it make
sense to use a 386-enabled kernel instead of some sort of minimum
optimization?  (586, 686). I haven't seen a 386 but for my home for
years. 

My impression that those kind of machines are used for very specialized
roles, such as gateways. Those kind of uses are well served with *bsd.
There must be other reasons, altough. 

> > The disk space on the CD is too precious 
> > for this. I'd prefer having more language packs.

We have two text processors for windows in live cd. I don't know for
install one, but removing abiword while we supply openoffice could do the trick.


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Alexandre Strube <surak at surak.eti.br>