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[Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Phillw,

I just noticed that

  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/GetLubuntu/JasonOdoom

does not mention the Alternate CDs at all.  If the Lubuntu Manual will
suggest people with 512MB or less use them, and that manual points
people to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/GetLubuntu then
logically... that page is going to need to link to the Alternate images!
 Basically, the Lubuntu Manual and the official GetLubuntu start page
need to be consistent with each other.

Did we decide at some time in the past specifically *not* to mention
them?  It seems odd to include the Minimal Install approach, but not to
mention or link to anything about the Alternate images, which are more
familiar and easier to use than the Minimal Install (netboot/mini.iso)
approach tends to be for most people.

Maybe the GetLubuntu wiki page needs to say something more like:

 * Standard PCs (768MB or more RAM)

   <links to LiveCD images and torrents go here>

 * Standard PCs (512MB to 768MB RAM)

   <links to Alternate Images and torrents go here>

 * Standard PCs (Less than 512MB RAM)

    <link to Minimal Install page goes here>

 * Macs (with Intel CPUs)

   <links to Mac images go here>

 * Macs (with PowerPC CPUs)

   <links to PowerPC images go here>

...

Then you or Jason can update the exact RAM amounts later, once Ali has
completed and documented his testing of zRAM, and there is a decision on
what the numbers really truly should be.  And one of us can edit the
manual sources to match those corrected numbers for RAM size.

Jonathan