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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 13/04/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jani Monoses</b> <<a href="mailto:jani.monoses@gmail.com">jani.monoses@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hello,<br><br>contrary to what we advertise the liveCD does not work well on 128M machines.<br>The panel is not there in the default desktop (since edgy at least) and ubiquity
<br>has no chances of finishing.<br>This can be alleviated by using swap, but on machines where there was no linux previously<br>there are no swap partitions.<br>Bugs<br><br><a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/105971">
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/105971</a><br>and<br><a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xubuntu-meta/+bug/70561">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xubuntu-meta/+bug/70561</a>
<br>are related to this.<br><br>Since we are unlikely to be able to fix this for feisty at least we could give more accurate<br>minimal memory requirements.<br>I'd like to ask any of you (more preferably) that as you test liveCD's try to figure out this
<br>minimum amount as well.<br>It would preferably be done on a fast and resourceful machine, but by passing mem=128m as a boot paramater to the kernel.<br>Then 256, 192 binary searc or whatever amounts you think until you find that the panel is there in the default desktop screen
<br><br>For the more adventurous, you could kill gdm stop some of the init scrips (hplip is a major offender as it launches python and it<br>uses at least 5M,or cupsys, etc) restart and see if the panel has made it.<br><br>
The changes that lead to this are almost all related to the base ubuntu system (hplip, system-tools-backends), what did indeed grow<br>between dapper and edgy is the addition of the trash applet to the panel, which is an external process.
<br><br>if you do test, please report any findings. These can be done in vmware as well.<br><br>thanks<br>Jani<br><br><br>--<br>xubuntu-devel mailing list<br><a href="mailto:xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com
</a><br><a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all">Once we have the results, what should we say on the website? Dapper can do on 128M and Edgy+ on higher?
<br>-- <br>Vincent