On Thu 10 May 2007 05:23:24 NZST +1200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
We'd like to discuss the following topics tomorrow. Please send your comments and suggestions as usual so that I can represent them.
* Smaller systems - what can be done?
Goal: A system with 128 MB of space.
Challenges are especially: * Languages and localization * documentation - > some packages have documentation split up already * theming -> some packages will be split up so that only one theme is in a package.
Are you talking about 128MB of *disk* space or *RAM* space? Please make and keep this distinction clear! What is the intended/envisaged use of such an installation / system? Do you think a small system which has only 128MB of software storage space (hard disk, flash card, ...) has >=256MB of RAM to run SUSE version-any on? Obviously (to me) we're not talking about a desktop system here, there are none with only 128MB of program storage. So what's the point of a distro which needs twice as much RAM as it does disk space to even install? Obviously: no install -> distro is phhhhhhhhht. Are you thinking people might install on a big computer, then transplant 128MB of storage space into something small? Do gnome, KDE, or languages in this situation have any relevance whatsoever? Why put effort into saving (say) 200MB of disk space when the smallest disk on the market is 40-80GB? I have a commercial application for a small control system running Linux. Must have: kernel, networking, services (web, ftp, ssh, ...), basic package management. Of total non-interest: GUIs, desktop software (no keyboard or mouse attached), languages (users see none of this anyway). Similarly for small servers, firewalls, whatever people can hack up. I'm pretty sure there are quite a few of these applications around, and they will stay firmly Debian. How much stuff SUSE does or does not install on disk is a non-issue when the installer hangs by its neck with a black screen half way through its own startup. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org