Mono required by ubuntu-desktop

Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski kewlopi at wp.pl
Sat Aug 5 12:11:04 BST 2006


On Wednesday 02 August 2006 00:31, Peter Garrett wrote:

> 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...

	My main machine is P2/400 laptop. It's old but I like it so much I can not 
find reasons to buy a new one (also, I buy things when others breaks, and 
this one runs fine). True, it has 256Mb, but the CPU power is still somehow 
lame by nowdays standards.

	It currently runs Ubuntu 5.10, I have no diskspace to do dist-upgrade :P

	Gnome is slow on this machine. Very slow. For me, it feels almost unusable. 
Things like Evolution and OpenOffice (OO.org 1.1.3 was shipped with 5.10) 
takes forever to popup. Throw at it a slow disk (and a slow interface, so 
buying new disk won't turn things to be fine) and when it starts to swap, you 
can feel the pain.

	That's why I've swapped Gnome-desktop with two WM and one DE. ION3 for 
developing, OpenBox for developing when I need "normal " WM (running GIMP on 
ION sucks:-) and KDE for other work. I don't want to troll, but KDE (I think 
it's not the stock one from 5.10, I think I've upgraded with Kubuntu.org 
packages later) feels a bit better than Gnome on same, low spec HW.

	So, running nowdays distribution on old machine can give you a bad 
experience, true. People like me, who knows Linux to some degree, can deal 
with it by themselfs (you can finetune Openbox:-) while the new-to-Linux 
crowd can not. I wonder if a Ubuntu based low-low-low fat version would be a 
good idea for Canonical, if they want to give a better experience for the PII 
running people around the world.

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