Well, I'll give this bug a chance and send it upstream but I can already
guess the response from Ubuntu will be the same as ours. They won't
consider it a bug...
In my opinion you can do the following:
- Stick to Mint 9 (which is supported for another 3 years)
- Switch to LMDE and enjoy the Mint 10 features on a faster base.
- Switch to the Xfce, LXDE or Fluxbox editions and enjoy the Ubuntu 10.10 base
on a lighter desktop.
- Upgrade your RAM
- Tweak the system to kill some services (printing, cron, network sharing...
anything you don't need)
- Replace resource-hungry apps such as OpenOffice.org, thunderbird, Firefox..
etc with lighter alternatives.
200MB really isn't that much to be honest. This is 2010 and we're in the
race amongst the most full-featured OS on the market. Older specs system
represent a niche market only some of our editions target, and there are
plenty of faster alternatives for this. To name a few: Debian (or LMDE),
Slackware, Arch.
Anyway, I'll send it upstream. It's likely to be marked as invalid by
Ubuntu as well, but I guess we never know.
** Also affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: linuxmint
Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
** Changed in: linuxmint
Status: Opinion => Invalid
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LM 10 RC uses over 200mb RAM
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/664006
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