Mono required by ubuntu-desktop

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 12:47:24PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> On 8/10/06, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 09:03:31PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> > > Oh, except for one thing: the live cd based installer was completely
> > > unusable.  Way too piggy.  I had to use the alternate installer.
> >
> > This is not a fault in the live installer...
> 
> http://releases.ubuntu.com/6.06/ claims that the live installer only
> requires 192MB of system RAM.   That's about what my 256MB system has
> (after subtracting shared video RAM), and it was bad enough that it
> was unusable.
> Thus it's either a bug in the live installer, or a bug in the release notes.
> 
> I'll try to measure what the real RAM requirement of the live installer is.
>
> It always amazes me when people claim that bloated RAM requirements
> are not a bug.

That figure was the result of real-world testing; we used the installer in
an environment with that amount of RAM and thereby established the
requirement.  Check the amount of available memory with
System->Administration->System Monitor.

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 - mdz