Mono required by ubuntu-desktop

[John Richard Moser]

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Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 August 2006 18:40, Peter Garrett wrote:
>>> Just my 0.2c from my iBook with a meer 640mb ram
>> Exactly! Time for a reality check: a lot of Ubuntu users could not
>> possibly afford an iBook, or even a celeron with half your ram - in many
>> countries a PIII with 128 MB ram would be a luxury!
> 
> 
> Hoary on a PII 266 with 256MB was slow, close to unusable, with Gnome and a 
> tad better with XFCE. Windows 2000 was behaving much better (including 
> Firefox being way faster).

^^^ this here is an argument for moving Ubuntu up to i586 <offtopic>;
I've had similar with a 350MHz K6-2 with 192M RAM, it took 5 tries to
install Dapper and each try took 20 minutes to get to the desktop.

The other side of it is of course that even microbenchmarks have a hard
time quantifying the gain; so i486 vs i586 vs i686 is smoke and mirrors.

Back on topic, you're quite right.  We need to see some profiling of
memory usage, system calls, and library calls (enter strace/ltrace); a
lot of the programs here are slow and bloated and fixing that will get
us back on track.

> 
> That machine is now my server and works better as is.
> 
> Just to explain how real world can be different than developers' world.
> 
> Hub
> 

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