Re: Installation
On Sat, September 15, 2012 2:11 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> 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.
That's because you know how to trim a system according to your needs.
Newbies don't know what 'trim' means, yet.
This system is overblown, yes, but at the moment, learning LaTeX and any
number of other projects, I actually need this stuff.
On the other system?
No.
But that's for something different.
>
>> >
>> >> 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.
No, that's a good move, but as I said, this is far from the finished
article. It wasn't even a five minute job.
But this is what the post is for.
The resultant discussion that will help clean it up.
>
>> 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
No.
Too vernacular.
We're dealing with an international audience.
Many would have trouble with vernacular.
>
> "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.
Yes.
Better.
Or 'transitional storage'?
Regards,
Weaver
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