** Chris G cl@isbd.net [2010-12-14 13:04]: <snip>
Finally I have Ubuntu 10.04 server running on the eeePc which only has a 2Gb SSD, it's a tight squeeze (at installation I didn't add *anything to the base install) but again does all I need quite happily. The 2Gb is now 70% full with a full gcc/g++, configure, make, etc. development system installed on it (to build OWFS) and mutt (which pulled in quite a lot of other bits, such as postfix which I removed again).
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If you don't want to install and then remove the extra packages disable the automatic installation of recommended packages. If you are using aptitude from the command line then you will need the -R or --without-recommends flag. Alternatively if you are using Synaptic just uncheck the "Consider recommended packages as dependencies" box on the General tab of the Preferences. I only recently twigged that Ubuntu automatically installs all recommended packages by default - actually when I was wanting to install Mutt myself. I'd never really considered looking into it before!
Oh, keeping with the subject to end, I'm running 10.04 on my server quite happily at the moment. It is a dual core Atom 330 based system running headless with no X and has been upgraded from 9.04 through 9.10 to 10.04. My only glitch was that I did the upgrade remotely via SSH using screen. During the process I lost connection and when I hooked back I had a few issues connecting back into my screen session due to changes in the upgrade process. I think I had to directly use screen rather than a wrapper that Ubuntu had set up.
My netbook is also running 10.04, and the only issues there seem to be fact that it uses a Via chipset which never seems perfectly supported. Oh, this desktop is too, this time a clean install instead of an upgrade.