On 01/26/2013 11:18 AM, 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:
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From: Julien Lavergne
Sent: 01/25/13 10:34 PM
To: lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com
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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.
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Phill:
I agree that the alternate install can be used, and does work, and I use
it for machines with 512 megabytes of RAM (which _used_ to be sufficient
for installing any of the 'flavors' of Ubuntu).
The problem is, it is prudent to try-out the new system before
installing it, and I must download the live CD system to do that, which
also used to be all that was needed to install it.
But now, I have to download another CD (not all of us have fast Internet
speeds) to do the actual install.
To me, it would be more friendly to the users, to be able to install
from what we already downloaded - even without the pretty pictures
(admittedly informative), than to require us to download yet another CD
when we decide to install.
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