Tim Foster wrote:
Dennis Clarke wrote:
  
I'm beginning to wonder about the value of targetting small systems. Isn't
everything being sold today shipping with 1GB RAM minimal ?
    

Totally agree - I'm just a cheapskate, and this is as easy a way for me
to learn about the distro constructor as anything else :-)
  
I think there is _some_ value -- it's probably just such a system which someone is likely to have laying around unused which they might want to either try Solaris on, or on which they might want to build something specific such as a music player appliance. (I also have a small Vaio laptop which runs Solaris 10 GA fine, but at 192Mb max memory can't run anything newer, and I had to file the edge off a 128Mb SODIMM to even get it that high;-). Secondly, investigating and fixing why small systems don't work can sometimes yield gains for large systems too by keeping unwarranted bloat in check.

However, busting a gut over getting it working from day one probably isn't warranted.

--
Andrew Gabriel


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