Hi, Ali, firstly thank you for all the work you put in for the minimal specs of what lubuntu will install on. To everyone else working on this, also a big thank you.
For our minimal specs, once we get to 256MB RAM, we are also stretching the applications (browser). @ Jluien, if Z-Ram works so well, could we drop alternate for some of the archs? Regards, Phill. On 17 June 2013 00:45, Ali Linx (amjjawad) <amjja...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > *My Test - Part 1* > *Note* These Tests have been done on Oracle VM version 4.2.12 running on > Windows 7 on HP Pavilion DV6, Core i5 first generation and 4GB RAM. > > *Test Case A* > > *Hardware Details: > * > CPU: 1 CPU > RAM Used by the OS: 256MB > HDD: 5GB > > *Scenario: * > This is to simulate when the user has 256MB Physical RAM and a dedicated > Graphics Card that does not steal/share its memory with the RAM. So, the OS > will use the whole RAM which is 256MB. > > *Installation:* > > 1. Mounted the Saucy ISO on the VM > 2. Chose "Install Lubuntu" from the Menu > 3. Chose "Erase Disk and Install Lubuntu" > 4. Installation Process took around 16mins > 5. VM Rebooted > 6. System is up and running > > *Notes:* > > 1. I have installed on completely wiped/free HDD. NO partitions > whatsoever. NO other system. Nothing. > 2. The installation Process was really smooth and without any problem, > it worked and finished from the first try. > 3. I have followed the same steps but choosing "Try Lubuntu without > installation" and then installed Lubuntu from the the Live Desktop by > clicking the icon on the Desktop "Install Lubuntu 13.10" and the > installation process took around 15mins-16mins as well but I felt the > process is slower than before. Moving the mouse for example wasn't as > smooth as the first test - when choosing "Install Lubuntu" from the menu. > 4. After the installation, and for both methods (Install Lubuntu and > Try Lubuntu without installation then install from the live desktop), the > RAM Usage according to 'htop': > > RAM: 98MB/256MB > SWAP: 1MB/482MB > > Firefox and LXTerminal with htop and it says: 153MB RAM and 7MB SWAP on > www.google.com and I don't feel like having only 256MB at all. > Did not play more. Was just testing how Firefox will behave. > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > = = = = = = = = = = = = > * > * > *Test Case B* > > *Hardware Details: > * > CPU: 1 CPU > Base Memory: 256MB > Video Memory: 32MB > Used Memory by the OS: 224MB > HDD: 5GB > > *Scenario: * > To simulate the situation when the user has 256MB Physical RAM and 32MB of > that RAM will be used by the built-in Graphics Card. > > *Installation:* > > 1. Mounted the Saucy ISO on the VM > 2. Chose "Install Lubuntu" from the Menu > 3. Chose "Erase Disk and Install Lubuntu" > 4. Installation Process took around 16mins > 5. VM Rebooted > 6. System is up and running > > > *Notes:* > > 1. I have installed on completely wiped/free HDD. NO partitions > whatsoever. NO other system. Nothing. > 2. Installation Process was a bit slow and it was installed > successfully from the first try. Not very slow, but slow or a bit slow. I > guess it depends from machine to machine. > 3. Graphics Memory after installation was done is reporting, according > to 'htop', 242MB Used RAM by OS which means only 14MB is being used by the > graphics and I guess it depends on the color and resolution so the system > needs 14MB for video card. After all, it is called 'Shared Memory' and the > video card does not really has to use it all :) > 4. I didn't try to the other option - "Try Lubuntu without > installation". I can tell the result would be the same. But I don't mind, > if really really necessary, to do that. > > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > = = = = = = = = = = = = > > *Test Case C* > > *Hardware Details: > * > CPU: 1 CPU > Used Memory by the OS: 192MB > HDD: 5GB > > *Scenario: * > To simulate the situation when the user has only 192MB Physical RAM and a > dedicated Graphics Card that does not steal/share its memory with the RAM. > So, the OS will use the whole RAM which is 192MB. > > > *Installation:* > > 1. Mounted the Saucy ISO on the VM > 2. Chose "Install Lubuntu" from the Menu > 3. Chose "Erase Disk and Install Lubuntu" > 4. Installation Process took around 20mins or a bit more. > 5. VM Rebooted > 6. System is up and running > > * > * > *Notes:* > > 1. I have installed on completely wiped/free HDD. NO partitions > whatsoever. NO other system. Nothing. > 2. I had to do 3 tries until the 3rd one got passed. The first two > tries, the installer crashed and dropped me to the Live Desktop with the > icon to install Lubuntu sitting there :) > 3. The installation process was slow but usable. > 4. When I tried to repeat using "Try Lubuntu without installation" and > then install Lubuntu from the the Live Desktop by clicking the icon on the > Desktop "Install Lubuntu 13.10", at the first few steps, the installer > crashed and it logged me off the Live Desktop and took me to LightDM and > only one username to login to which is "other". > > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > = = = = = = = = = = = = > > *Test Case D* > * > * > *Hardware Details: > * > CPU: 1 CPU > Used Memory by the OS: 128MB > HDD: 5GB > * > * > *Notes:* > > 1. The installer crashed and dropped me to the Live Desktop with the > icon to install Lubuntu sitting there :) > 2. When I tried to install from the Live Desktop, it crashed and > dropped me to LightDM. > > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > = = = = = = = = = = = = > > End of Testing for today :) > > *Conclusion*: > We must understand the difference between the minimum system requirement to > * 'install'* Lubuntu ... and ... the minimum system requirement to > *'use'*Lubuntu > *'after'* installing it. IMHO :) > > My above 4 test cases were about the minimum system requirement to > 'install' Lubuntu. > After all, the usage of the system purely depends on the user. If he is a > light user, the system won't be so demanding at all. > If he is a heavy user, that is totally different story. > > So, IMHO, we should be clear about this point. > > > *Recommendation:* > Long story short, I do recommend that: > *The Minimum System Requirement to Install Lubuntu 13.10 from The LiveCD > using the Desktop ISO, is ... 256MB Physical RAM.* > > > *Next Step:* > I have moved houses so all my stuff are packed. I need to take my old test > PC from the store, find my keyboard and try to play with it and repeat the > above tests (not all of them). > What so special about that PC is: > It has 512MB Physical RAM and its BIOS has a feature to share 32MB-256MB > for the built in video card. So, I can test down to 256MB RAM. > I can not go below that. But, after all, from what I've found so far, it > is useless to go below that as long as the above recommendation says it all > :) > > Thanks for reading my report! > > End of report. > > -- > > "All of us are smarter than any one of us." > > *Best Regards,* > *amjjawad <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad/>* > *Start > Ubuntu<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/CommunicationsTeam/WOWLubuntu/StartUbuntu> > * > > *Test Machine: ASUS F3F Laptop - **Intel Core Duo T2350 @ 1.86GHz with > 489MB RAM* > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-wiki-docs > Post to : lubuntu-wiki-d...@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-wiki-docs > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw
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