Ubiquity installer not usable on machines with <= 256 MB of RAM

[Krzysztof Lichota]

Peter Garrett napisał(a):
>>> 256 MB and less is rather typical configuration of computer in Poland
>>> and possibly other countries. If the system does not install on such
>>> machines, user base will be cut down.
>> Users with too little memory to use the live CD may still use the text-mode
>> installer by downloading it.
> 
> If I might venture an opinion ( I'm not a developer but I read the list
> with interest) - if Krzysztof Lichota is right about this, then I think
> saying "users with too little memory... may still use the text mode
> installer" rather misses the point.
> 
> The people who most need the shipit CDs are precisely the kinds of people
> who are unlikely to have sufficient bandwidth to download an alternative.
> I would suggest that there is also a likely correlation between
> low-powered machines, low RAM and poor access to bandwidth.

Exactly. This is what I am trying to express :)

Regards

	Krzysztof Lichota


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