> I've been able to get a standard 5.2 Redhat Linux distribution
down to an
> uncompressed footprint of 4.3 MB. I haven't tried compressing it,
but my
> guess is it will tarball down between 2 and 3 MB. Keep in mind
I've done no
> size optimization other than hacking away binaries and libraries
that
> weren't essential to my application. Also keep in mind the
tarballing
> approach economizes 'eprom' at the expense of RAM for a ramdisk.
(or more likely FLASH Disk instead of EPROM) Of course, 4.3 MB
won't fit on an 80186 (or 8088).
Does this include networking?
I personally like the idea of deriving ELKS from an existing
Linux distribution better than (debugging) all- (or even partly) new
code (but keep up the good work, Alistair!). This becomes more
worthwhile if you can automate the process (so it applies readily to
new Linux versions), and then provide options to easily include
feature "packages" (or is this already done?). Finally, it would be
great to have some of the great brains (e.g., on this list) look for
missing pieces (i.e., other things that can be removed /
modularized).
--Bill
