Brad Campbell wrote: > I've got issues with a load of kde programs being installed and not having > icons in the menus, but > then I built kde 3.5 from experimental deb source ages ago to upgrade kpilot, > so I'm not really > surprised. It all works and I've lost no functionality. On the other hand > it's freaking HUGE!!!!!
Ok, found a neat way to tackle the size bit with synaptic (which I've really only started to get to know, being a dselect bunny from _way_ back). In the package view, you have the standard columns.. the one on the left is the install/remove status checkbox. If you sort by that column (click on it in the header).. you get a concise list of all the packages installed. Now if you click on the size column you get a concise list of all the packages installed sorted by size.. NEAT! Being an upgrade, Ubuntu was not going to remove stuff I'd already installed that was now obsolete (like gcc-4.0 & gcc-4.1).. so I went through and removed all the stuff I no longer needed/wanted (korean / japanese / greek fonts for example).. old compilers & versions of automake.. used deborphan to find stuff that was no longer required.. sudo apt-get remove `deborphan` .. and keep doing it until there is nothing left to remove. Took 4 cycles here. Watch out if you have locally compiled packages though.. as they don't register dependency in the packaging system and may depend on a library that deborphan suggests you remove. Anyway, Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 4.6G 3.7G 775M 83% / We now have a much reduced OS footprint and we're much happier about it :) Interesting stuff.. one of the main reasons I upgraded is Gnome has been working (among other things) on reducing power usage.. wakeups, static timers and the like.. With metacity (no visual effects) my graphics card (i915) wakes up 20 times a second. With low level compiz desktop effects it wakes up 75 times a second! I need to do some power profiling to see what kind of results that really produces in terms of power consumption. This machine measures it's battery consumption down to a resolution of about 20mW, so it's nice for doing stuff like that. I sometimes use zoiper voip client (as it speaks IAX2 natively), but just noticed it wakes up over 200 times a second when idle! no wonder my machine was idling warm. We like Ubuntu 8.04 as much as we liked 6.06 when it was released (which was the first version of Ubuntu we'd ever seen/used). My servers are a hybrid of debian stable and Ubuntu 6.06 (local servers are Debian and Co-Lo are Ubuntu as I had someone else set them up remotely) and I'm happy with that, but I _really_ like Ubuntu for Desktop use.. and so do my Parents (though their next machine with be a new iMac actually running MacOS) Brad -- "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." -- Douglas Adams
