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Old 24th February 2012
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Originally Posted by jggimi View Post
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.
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.
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