On Wed, 5 Jan 100, Niall Parker wrote:
^^^ :)
> Thanks, I'll have another look at it ... I have looked at the ThinLinux
> project which apparently was related, and its minimum requirements seemed
> to be 16-24 MB RAM and a 4 MB boot device (not too thin in my view !)
Thin? That's a monster machine, and they're probably using glibc.
I run a libc4 system in 2MB and a bit of swap. (I use a static swapon
program to get started, though. It's written in assembly and only
64 bytes long.)
The 2MB system is not much fun to work with, of course, but 8MB are plenty
for a little service machine (mine has 2 modems, ISDN, SCC-card, ethernet,
2 plip lines, and acts as answering machine and mail server for a couple
of people).
> While I know there are new features in the later stuff, it doesn't
> seem anywhere close to in proportion with the memory requirements !
> (I guess bloat is a natural progression ;)
:) Yes, I think the drop in ram prices is causing people to optimize a
lot less and to incorporate "expensive" features because they won't hurt
on today's machines.
Kai
