Why not just sense RAM/CPU the computer has and show the slideshow only when appropriate?

On 13-01-26 01:18 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
Hi Aere,

In the section 'Get Lubuntu' [1] we do actively encourage people with low resource computers to use the Alternate install. The alternate install does not require usage of terminal and is akin to a GUI (Slide Show) install but without the 'pretty pictures'.

Regards,

Phill.
1. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/GetLubuntu

On 26 January 2013 18:01, Aere Greenway <a...@dvorak-keyboards.com <mailto:a...@dvorak-keyboards.com>> wrote:

    On 01/26/2013 03:13 AM, Tracer wrote:

            ----- Original Message -----
            From: Julien Lavergne
            Sent: 01/25/13 10:34 PM
            To: lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com
            <mailto:lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com>
            Subject: Slideshow changes ?
            Please, if you have ideas about it, share them with us, so
            we can see
            what we can include in the next slideshow.


        Answer : An OFF-button & a note.

        It took me a lot of googling to figure out why lubuntu wasn't
        installing
        in my machine ( AMD 2400+ ) and it turned out I had to disable
        slideshow
        And it's worked fine after I did that. -Tracey

    All:

    Since a lot of people gravitate toward Lubuntu because their
    machines are not capable of running Ubuntu and Kubuntu well
    (because of lack of memory, and/or processor speed), I think it
    would be a good idea to have an option of not doing the slide show.

    Perhaps, even better, would be for the installer to see if there
    is enough memory available to run it, and not load it in if there
    wasn't, substituting a single picture (possibly the last slide of
    the show).

    But if it couldn't be done by the installer itself, at least
    giving the user the option of skipping it if their machine doesn't
    have a lot of memory would be a good idea.

    I worry that whether the slide-show is done or not, it occupies
    space in the installer, so the slide show would have to be
    something that is loaded by the installer if the slide-show is
    selected.  This worry is supported by the fact to disable the
    slide-show, I had to actually remove the slide-show package.

    In the live CD version, that slide-show is using-up memory space
    even by its existence in the RAM file-system.

-- Sincerely,
    Aere



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