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I would like to have your thoughts on the Scalability of SuSE Linux. I heard from a collegue that they managed to scale SuSE down to 30Megabytes, and that was a good achievement....
What they meant I suspect was that they installed it on a system with 30 (or more likely 32) megabytes of RAM - which is doable in spite of what the box may tell you...
Now, I am wondering if I could use SuSE in an embedded application, and go down to 2-3Megabytes in kernel size, pretty much like a Montavista kernel?
No, that's not what it's for ,if you want to build a Linux-based embedded system, you don't want a full desktop/server distro like SuSE. And it's not just about kernel size, I just checked the size of the Athlon kernel in SuSE 8.2 and it's 1.2M, it's about having small libs and apps, built specifically for the hardware when it comes to doing embedded stuff. Moreover, you don't want to have to install the software in the same way as you do with SuSE for an embedded system, you want to have it installed in firmware I would think - with embedded stuff, you want to avoid moving parts like hard drives, as they are likely to fail long before the rest of a piece of kit would. -- James Ogley, Webmaster, Rubber Turnip james@rubberturnip.org.uk http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk Jabber: riggwelter@myjabber.net Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 8.2). GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org