[ubuntu-uk] Looking for volunteers

[Nick Brandon]

On 11 Jul 2010, at 21:32, Alan Bell wrote:

> I am quite interested in the running from memory concept, I guess you
> are somehow copying the entire CD to a ramdisk or something and mounting
> that over the filesystem, thereby trading a bit of loading time for it
> running like a greased whippet when fully loaded. This sounds to me like
> it might be a worthy performance compromise and give a rather good
> impression to the new user. I would rather stick to the standard
> packages and configuration though (maybe dropping something if more room
> is needed for the in-memory CD thing) if you have improvements to the
> base configuration then the best thing to do is to work on getting them
> into the main CD, there are sessions at UDS where everyone can
> participate on deciding what goes in.
> 
> Alan.
> 

I share your thoughts, hence my previous email saying it was a tweak rather than a derivative. It will be pretty much based on the official configuration except removing a few items that are not in use (non-english language packs for example) to reduce memory footprint.

Thanks
Nick