On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 12:23:25PM -0400, Bill Vermillion wrote: > Not everyone needs a system with all the bells-and-whistles ever > invented and many want a sysstem that can be made small and compact > and eliminate things not needed. That last small BSD I installed > was on an 800MB drive that left me 400MB user space. So many > other OSes just give up when given something that small. It's not hard to trim it down even further. My router runs off a 64MB flash card and has a mostly complete FreeBSD system. Only big thing I had to rip out was gcc. And this is FreeBSD 6.1, not 4.x. With a full set of man pages! And screen, vim, nmap, rsync, and isc-dhcpd added! And it's still only using 38MB of the 64! Okay so I sort of cheated and /usr is compressed with geom_uzip, but it still amazes me how so much functionality can be contained in such "little" (by today's standards anyway) space. CraigReceived on Thu Sep 07 2006 - 16:55:22 UTC
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