On Sunday 25 May 2008 05:04:22 pm Hans Hagen wrote: > Patrick Gundlach wrote: > > Hello Hans, > > > >>>>> But also much bigger. Having an ubuntu/context (vmware) image > >>>>> is not hard to create, but it will take something like 2 gig. > >>>>> Nice idea, though. > >> > >> so much? > > > > With a lot of effort one could cut it down a bit. The problem is > > that there is no way to get a minimal ubuntu/gnome desktop, only > > the regular one with all kinds of software (open office etc.) pre > > installed. You can remove this software, but I don't know how far > > to go. It takes some time experimenting. I've played around with > > this quite a bit and I always get about 2 gig of disk space. > > Without java, this could be 1.5 or so. Installing such a vm > > (vmware based) takes about 10-20 minutes, including all vmware > > hacks. So this is the smallest part. > > aren't there those tiny linuxes of some 50 meg ? > > Hans
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