Hi Jerome, >>> ... in RC4, we decided to reduce the size of the LiteUSB stick.
>> Who are "we”? ... > I do not and will not speak for others. When I say “we", it > simply means that it is not something I arbitrarily decided. The way you describe it, it does sound arbitrary. It gives the impression that you alone decided that, but now want to defend that decision by claiming a "group" would have decided it. A group whose members stay unnamed? I would prefer a broader discussion about that "16 MB disk is enough for us" topic. > The smallest flash memory card I have is 4mb PCMCIA card, > some 32 & 64mb xD cards and a 512mb USB thumb drive. > But, I rarely use anything under 8gb > anymore on any kind of regular basis. Let me hide your 4 MB card, so we can agree on 32 or 64 MB ;-) > "What is BASE?” is really a different discussion. Should things that > almost no one uses anymore (like “assign”) still be part of BASE? Yes. BASE should contain everything which MS DOS 6 would have had. In addition, there could be dozens of nice little things while still easily fitting on 32 MB or 64 MB. > Should other things not in BASE now be added? Not bad questions. They should not be added to "base", but it would be interesting to have more than only "base" in "lite" :-) As you can imagine, my concept of "lite" is driven by "small and nice", so having a few dozen extra tools sounds good for me. My idea would be that if somebody wants extremely small DOS, then they can simply use a boot disk. A "lite" version of the distro, however, already implies having a set of tools included. The smallest plausible set would be "base", as you would not want to be even WORSE than a 30 year old MS DOS. But even your smallest XD cards do have 32 MB of space. E.g. 25 MB fits a lot more apps than this old MS DOS 6 on three floppies. Also, all apps in our distro are free anyway, so bundling goodies will not grow the price. Regards, Eric :-) _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
