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. > -- > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.efn.org/~laprice ( Community, Cooperation, Consensus http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but learn from them.(carpe fructus ludi) http://allie.office.efn.org/phpwiki/index.php?OregonPublicNetworking
