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

[Christopher Bergeron]

Thanks for the tip Ben!  I'm going to have a 20GB hard drive on the 
machine, but I only want to use it for data files and temp. space  (i 
could put the kernel sources on it).  So basically, what I'm asking, is 
could I fit a decent linux install with X in about 256 megs...  Every 
indication is that I can ...

-CB


Ben Coleman wrote:

>On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 18:14:05 -0500 (EST), Jonathan Rickman wrote:
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>>On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Christopher Bergeron wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>Honestly, this sounds like a job for Slackware.
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>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.
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>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.
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>Ben
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