It seems fairly obvious that we want the Freedom Box software to run on limited systems but to provide a range of functions.
To what extent does that mean we should be aiming at making everything small? In particular, are their places where we should the smallest alternatives available rather than the usual choices? Does that even matter in the context of Debian, where the packages system offers many choices anyway? In some cases, aiming small would be a major change, for example using dietlibc (http://www.fefe.de/dietlibc/) rather than glibc or Minix (http://www.minix3.org/) rather than Linux. The size payoff might be large, but that is not entirely clear. The amount of work involved almost certainly would be substantial. In other cases, it is less of a disruption and more easily handled with the standard package utilities. Checking on my Ubuntu box, I see sendmail, postfix and qmail are available; for all I know, there are more. There are probably multiple web servers, certainly multiple borwsers, multiple databases, and so on. Do we need to think about which of these should be the defaults for an fbox server? My guess would be Linux with dietlibc used wherever possible, with one of the variants of djbdns, qmail and some tiny web server. _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
