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Re: Installation



On Sb, 15 sep 12, 13:35:36, Weaver wrote:
> >
> > Is this a guess or did you actually calculate the installed size?
> 
> Neither.
> It's from personal experience.
> The other two installs are this one I'm posting on = 2778 installed
> packages, which was about 1000 more than that before I pared it down - I
> have a lot of font packages and editors for writing.
> And a GUI-less system of just over 800 packages.
 
On my system (lxde + some development packages ~= 4 GiB if I clean apt's 
cache) gnome and kde-standard together would pull in "just" some 
additional 2 GiB.

> >
> >> The swap partition is an area on your hard drive where process exchange
> >> takes place when your system is working. It is the equivalent of
> >> 'Virtual
> >> Memory'.
> >
> > Still very technical, and why the reference to Virtual Memory?
> 
> Because they have probably come from a Windows environment and may
> identify with that concept.

I'd rather not make any assumptions about previous knowledge.
 
> Let me
> > take a shot:
> >
> > The swap partition is a scratch area on your hard drive used by the
> > operating system.
> 
> Yes, but they may wonder what 'a scratch area' is.

Too non-technical? :p

"The swap partition is a temporary storage used by the operating 
system."

I removed the "hard drive" part since SSDs are becoming more common and 
it's possible to install Debian also on USB sticks or SD cards.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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