I have a tiny distro for this. It is 8MB with browser email client editor etc. It was one of my fun project. If we all the working for some common goal, how about integrating all of them in a single project? Yunus (from Goa) has made same kind of thing which crams into 20MB
Thaths, how about starting a open project "Tiny Distro for Old Pc for Indian Schools"? As all of my code and works are GPLed, I can put them in that project. We can also add Indian language support there. iti Archan Sudhakar Chandra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 05/23/2002 04:23 AM, did USM Bish write (doodah! doodah!): > > On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 10:05:56AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I have donated my old 386 with 8MB/260MB Color Monitor to a local > >> Deaf & Dumb Charity Orgz. > > Indeed a noble thought ~Pat ... well done. > > Yes, excellent thing you are doing, Pat. > > >> I am thinking of using Potato, which some claims, can be > >> cramped in below 150 MBs with all the bells-n-whistles of email > >> client/ browser etc. > > I'm working on a similar project where my limit is 96M. I'm trying to > achieve this by: > > 1. Not having swap space > 2. Having a compressed kernel (zImage) > 3. Bare minimum system admin utilities > 4. Having a minimum editor > 5. Going with Abiword instead of Star/Open Offfice > 6. Going with Opera / Mozilla > 7. Configuring logrotate such that logs are not kept for more than a > couple of days. > 8. Stripping all binaries. > _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
