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Re: [opensuse-factory] Making the basesystem smaller
  • From: Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:49:55 +0100
  • Message-id: <hops979kvg.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Jim Pye <jim.pye@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Andreas
>
> I see that openssh is there, good. Having that gives the ability to do a
> lot of things remotely if networking is included (Which looks as if it
> is as dhcpcd is there)
>
> However one thing I see missing, it could however be in things like
> coreutils, is an editor. Not wanting to start a flame war but vi, emacs,
> pico, nano etc.

That's why I decided to leave this out. I do expect that those
experts that use the minimal base system will add their own choice.

> My definition of base system (minimum system) would also be the hardware
> it runs on. Minimum memory, graphics/text display etc. When constructing
> a minimum/base system this could be taken into consideration when
> choosing pieces to be included or not.

What exactly do you mean here?

Andreas
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