On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, JF Martinez wrote:
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> 2) The console installation has some grievous bugs and given that
> the installation activates swap pretty late and the neeed for a RAM
> disk that means that the buggy console install is the only choice
> for < 32 meg boxes. Are we living in a planet where nobody has <
> 32 mags?
No, if we lived in a planet where everyone had > 32 megs, there would be
no text install. Believe me, you do not want to be running the
installer in graphical mode with less than that, even with swap. You
end up having no place to actually do disk caching (because swap isn't
really useful in that case) and so it's _really_ slow.
> 5) Stopping the xfs (a seemingly inocuous action) means the user
> will be deprived of a graphical interface. Any earther would
> have told you that Xconfigurator should genarate a regular font
> path and then when starting X, probe for the xfs and do an xset
> to put it in front of the font path: that would make a bit harder
> for the user shooting himslf in the foot
This is exactly how 6.0 behaved as well. If you include the regular
font paths as well, then you bloat the memory footprint of the X server
by having xfs load fonts _and_ X load the fonts separately. Not a good
thing IMO.
Jeremy
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