Mono required by ubuntu-desktop

[Micah J. Cowan]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 08:31:23AM +1000, Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 19:00:44 -0300
> Evandro Fernandes Giovanini <evandrofg at ig.com.br> wrote:
> 
> > I'm sure Ubuntu wants to do better. Providing more features and better
> > applications is not a waste of RAM, it's putting RAM to good use. 
> 
> And what of the ( many ) people who run older machines with less RAM ?
> 
> Linux for human beings ? There are a lot of human beings out there who are
> lucky to have even 128 MB of RAM, and who are using old Pentiums.
> 
> Can we please avoid thinking always in terms of bells and whistles, and
> try to balance features with the needs of people for whom a stick of RAM
> represents a large investment?
> 
> I suggest, as an experiment, that developers might deliberately install
> Ubuntu (Gnome version) on, say, a PII with 128 MB and see what it is
> like...
> 
> Please keep it as lean as possible. People on dialup with old boxes already
> have problems with their shipit CDs as a result of the greater memory
> demands of the new installer. 

1) Edgy is specifically supposed to be a "bells-and-whistles" release.
If you want better stability, more "serious" distro, you should be
sticking with Dapper.

2) The audience you are describing as being lucky to have 128MB or RAM
on old Pentiums should really be using Xubuntu, not Ubuntu. It's really
the wrong market...

That being said, I would find it somewhat silly to find Tomboy become a
base-installed item. And I probably won't be using f-spot; but I don't
mind if that goes on the base installation.

And, as other people have pointed out, f-spot, etc, will not consume any
RAM whatsoever, until you decide to fire it up. If, against good reason,
you are using Ubuntu instead of Xubuntu on a 128MB-RAM-system, you would
still have to explicitly decide to fire the thing up in order for it to
trouble your memory. Disk-space is another issue, perhaps, but I'd still
submit that Ubuntu (and, especially, Edgy) would be the wrong choice.

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Micah J. Cowan
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