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 -- "It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government." -- Thomas Paine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/f9757bc4246d67597a09e5931107a474.squir...@fruiteater.riseup.net