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Volker Kuhlmann schreef:
> On Thu 10 May 2007 05:23:24 NZST +1200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> 
>> We'd like to discuss the following topics tomorrow.  Please send your
>> comments and suggestions as usual so that I can represent them.
> 
>> * Smaller systems - what can be done?
>>
>>   Goal: A system with 128 MB of space.
>>
>>   Challenges are especially:
>>   * Languages and localization
>>   * documentation - > some packages have documentation split up already
>>   * theming -> some packages will be split up so that only one theme is
>>     in a package.
> 
> Are you talking about 128MB of *disk* space or *RAM* space? Please make
> and keep this distinction clear!
> 
> What is the intended/envisaged use of such an installation / system?
> 
> Do you think a small system which has only 128MB of software storage
> space (hard disk, flash card, ...) has >=256MB of RAM to run SUSE
> version-any on?
> 
> Obviously (to me) we're not talking about a desktop system here, there
> are none with only 128MB of program storage. So what's the point of a
> distro which needs twice as much RAM as it does disk space to even
> install? Obviously: no install -> distro is phhhhhhhhht.
> 
> Are you thinking people might install on a big computer, then transplant
> 128MB of storage space into something small? Do gnome, KDE, or languages
> in this situation have any relevance whatsoever?
> 
> Why put effort into saving (say) 200MB of disk space when the smallest
> disk on the market is 40-80GB?
> 
> I have a commercial application for a small control system running
> Linux. Must have: kernel, networking, services (web, ftp, ssh, ...),
> basic package management. Of total non-interest: GUIs, desktop software
> (no keyboard or mouse attached), languages (users see none of this
> anyway). Similarly for small servers, firewalls, whatever people can
> hack up. I'm pretty sure there are quite a few of these applications
> around, and they will stay firmly Debian. How much stuff SUSE does or
> does not install on disk is a non-issue when the installer hangs by its
> neck with a black screen half way through its own startup.
> 
> Volker

It is true, that if one wants to have a small and stable system, fully
functional, with a minimal windowmanager, one ends up with Debian
(sarge), which still has a base from 300MB, without x-server.
48MB, for an overcomplete OS, (DSL), when one does like cmd...

KDE or GNOME, are not usable for these kind of systems.
En indeed 128MB Ram or Diskspace?


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