Small footprint linux

[brian]

On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 09:21, Jason Stephenson wrote:
> Can you even get a working X in under 32 MB these days? On my FreeBSD 
> box, /usr/X11R6 is 251MB. Granted, I have a couple apps and libraries 
> installed but I use a "rudimentary" window manager, Black Box. (By 32 
> MB, I assume you mean disk space.) Top says that my XFree86 4.3 
> installation is presently using 90 MB of RAM.

I'm not sure if you can run a window manager in less than 32MB, the
original post was sort of my lazy way of finding out :)


> I guess XFree86 3.3.6 takes up less space, but still X is generally a 
> pig. I'd say skip the X if you want small.

That is my worry, is that I won't be able to get any sort of a desktop,
which I would kind of really like to have...

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> brian <lists at karas.net>