[ale] midori linux vs. gentoo linux (features not flame!)

[Ben Coleman]

On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 18:14:05 -0500 (EST), Jonathan Rickman wrote:

>On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Christopher Bergeron wrote:
>
>> I'm looking for a distro that will run in about 255 Megs (with X!) and
>> I'm not sure how to go about it.
>Honestly, this sounds like a job for Slackware.

Slackware 4, definitely.  I once ran a firewall using Slack 4 on a
120MB hard drive, including the kernel source and development
environment to recompile the kernel (No X, though).  Things have
fattened up since then.  Forget recompiling a modern kernel on the
machine, as the Kernel source alone takes up about 138MB.  You can
probably also forget compiling anything that requires glibc, as last I
remember, that's up over 60MB now.  On a no-development machine, I
think you might manage to get X running in 255MB as long as you're not
trying to run KDE or GNOME, using Slackware 8.1.

OTOH, for Slackware 8.1, the A series (the base system) requires 71MB
if you install it in full, and the X series (X, natch) 115MB.  That
totals 186MB, and you probably won't want to install either in full. 
So, depending on what else you want to add (networking, one of the
smaller web browsers), you just might make it using Slack.

Ben
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