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Originally Posted by jggimi
I have been considering removing the "heavy" images -- XFCE, KDE, and Gnome. They are larger than CD, and due to the use of uncompressed CD9660 filesystems, are so slow as to be difficult to really use. As a proof that general purpose workstations could be deployed with OpenBSD, they showed it was possible, but with CD filesystems, are not practically useful.
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My first introduction to Unix was
Slax, which has a boot option to run everything from RAM. This results in a few more minutes to start up, but after that the full‐blown KDE environment was quite snappy on my little Thinkpad. I don’t know if you’ve considered (or already implemented) something similar in your LiveCDs, but it may be an option. Of course, it does require a fair amount of RAM—I think Slax needed 512MiB.