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[Chris <cyber.druif@xxxxxxxxx>]

Should we consider putting it on the list of ubiquity devs to reduce memory
footprint? Once we are an official derivative of Ubuntu we might have a
better foot to stand on and ask for these things.
But it would even benefit Ubuntu I guess. Lower footprint would speed up
installation as well?
Just a thought of course.

With metta, Chris

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 21:15, Julien Lavergne <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Le lundi 28 mars 2011 à 21:48 -0600, matthew byers a écrit :
> >
> > Though I have not had time to properly test this out if it now takes
> > more ram to install I think we need to address that soon. Lets not
> > lose sight of what lubuntu is just because we are trying to please
> > others. Lubuntus small footprint is a high quality of it so I would
> > hate to see that go.
>
> Unfortunately, it will be very difficult to reduce the memory footprint
> of the installer for 11.04. We used the same than Ubuntu, which have
> some advantages (ex: shared development) and disadvantages (ex: memory
> usage is not the priority of the ubiquity devs).
>
> Installer need some improvements (reducing memory usage, add option to
> install only lubuntu-core ...), but it's not the easiest part of
> Lubuntu / Ubuntu :)
>
> Regards,
> Julien Lavergne
>
>
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