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 -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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