[H-GEN] Computing without GUI

[John Ryland]

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On Monday 29 January 2001 18:40, Jason Henry Parker wrote:
> Yeah, never mind I just installed X, perl, vim, java, netscape pcmcia
> services, ppp and emacs on a Debian GNU/Linux box *today* in less than
> 600MB.  What am I talking about?

There are quite a few tiny linux distros. Lots of single or two floppy disk 
distros. Off the top of my head, Tom's root boot disk (tomrtbt) and muLinux.

> Of course, if you want low disk-footprint installs, you don't use
> Linux.  Period.

Linux is not the problem. Linux is used a lot in embedded devices, it's Linux 
Distributions that package and include every version of every type of 
application that is the problem. At work we have SuSE on DVD and an install 
of it can easily take several Gig. It like installs about 5 different mp3 
players, 10 fractal programs, 10 graphics viewers etc.

However it is possible to have a very decent setup with most of the things 
you need to run a pretty X desktop in less than 300Mb. You just have to know 
which packages to select and which to not.

Regards
John

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