I run a Ubuntu 12.04 install in vmware player with 1GB memory using Unity. Runs just fine. Smooth, no stutter can run chromium with a dozen plus tabs with firefox for the our firewall gui, thunderbird, a handful of terminals and music...blah blah blah... Not going into the whole Unity good/bad game played by the Linux communities at large mainly cause I couldn't care less, it's not my main machine and just trying to keep tabs on what they're doing but it does run just fine below the 2GB range. On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Erik Anderson <erikerik at gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Chuck Cole <cncole at earthlink.net> wrote: > >> Yaron told him on 6/8 that the ARM version of Ubuntu uses a small memory >> model and that didn't sink in at all. > > > One interesting thing I noticed on this: > > On the Parallela website, they state in their FAQ that they're shipping a > CLI-only version of Ubuntu. Given the intended use case for this, that > seems completely reasonable. If I were purchasing a piece of hardware > intended to enable parallel computing software developement, I certainly > wouldn't want a GUI sitting around sucking resources. > > However, in their kickstarter video, they highlight its use as a > HTPC/browsing machine, which obviously requires X. > > They likely included the GUI bits in their video to hook more backers on > kickstarter, which I think is a bit disingenuous for the expresses goal of > the board. > > -Erik > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130610/ab7ebfcf/attachment-0001.html>