Can BasicLinux use larger ramdisks for a computer with sufficient RAM as might
be the case with a new Windows ME, 2000 or XP computer where the user might want
to see what Linux looks like? And what would be an optimum ramdisk size with
20 MB RAM such as I have now?
from Steven (NZ):
>Type e3 when you are in BasicLinux and you will get a
>Wordstar-type editor. It is only 6kb in size, so I
>included it as an alternative to the default BasicLinux
>editor (pico).
I wasn't really a Wordstar admirer, liked WordPerfect better back in the days
of WordPerfect 5.0 and 5.1 for DOS. But 6KB beats the Tiny Editor for DOS (just
under 10 KB) and OS/2 (just over 10 KB) written by Tim Baldwin of IBM.
>BasicLinux has fetchmail (used to retrieve mail), but
>there's no easy way to send mail or read news. However,
>BasicLinux does have telnet, FTP and netcat, so perhaps
>a clever person might be able to do something with these.
>It would be possible to install mail and/or news packages
>from Slackware 3.5 (although I doubt whether there is
>sufficient room in the default BasicLinux ramdisk). I
>have never done this myself, so I can't be much help.
>However, I do know of a small IRC client that works with
>BasicLinux. Let me know if you want it.
I remember there was a tiny Linux that had a tiny sendmail, don't remember the
name of that distribution.
I looked through the README80.TXT for Slackware 8.0, and it looks like I'd need
946 MB for a tight fit, not including GIMP and GNOME (350 MB), KDE (390 MB),
teTeX (135 MB) and xview (15 MB). Compilers total 280 MB. I can only
accommodate about 780 MB now. Maybe Red Hat and Mandrake are fatter? Or about
the same? (Free, Net or Open)BSD installation is not so huge, though there are
a lot of extra packages that can be added.
