Mono required by ubuntu-desktop

[Dan Kegel]

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On 8/5/06, Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski <kewlopi at wp.pl> wrote:
> 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 ...
>
>         My main machine is P2/400 laptop [with 256MB]...
>         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.

I just ran startup time benchmarks for the OS and a few key apps for
two laptops (a modern Athlon 64 with 512MB, and an old Athlon 1GHz with 256MB).
Results are online at http://kegel.com/linux/comfort/startup-benchmarks.html
Quick summary: Ubuntu 6.06 is fine on this machine.

> 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.

Have you tried Xubuntu?
I haven't yet, but it's the kind of low fat version you're asking for.
(Is there a way to switch between Xubuntu and Ubuntu without having
two installs?)
- Dan