Yowsah, OpenBSD definitely shows some of the benefits that come from
honing established practice to a fine point.

On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Jacob Meuser wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 02:07:31AM -0800, Jacob Meuser wrote:
> > 
> > now `du -sk` = 272051, about 265 MB for a fully functional system, with
> > enlightenment/gnome to boot!  (And there's still more we can remove, like
> > the whole misc30.tgz, and XF86Setup ... down to 258 MB ;)
> 
> And of course, since there's no compiler ...
> 
> % find usr/local -name \*.h -o -name \*.a |xargs sudo rm
> 
> 245 MB - I've never gotten Win98 below 250 MB (and I've tried), and what 
> you have here is far more functional ... perl, apache, lynx(ssl), sshd, ssh,
> bind, dig, dhcpd, dhclient, ppp, cu, pf, sha1, tcpdump ... and, oh yeah,
> gnome.
> 
now shovel it onto a pair of 64mb compact flash cards, mount the whole
thing on a single board computer stick it in a ruggedised case with a
little rubber cap for the ethernet jack/pcmcia slot and voila! a laptop
you could sell at rei.

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