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to: MAURICE KINAL
from: CHARLES ANGELICH
date: 2005-07-25 23:05:00
subject: KNOPPIX 3.9 last CD

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Hello Maurice - 

CA>> That was easier to agree with prior to all the bloat. 

MK> What bloat? My initrd's are still under 8M. The development
MK> partition - even with X libs ready, willling and able - is
MK> less then 300M and that includes C and C++ with extra math
MK> libs for all sorts of processing, even parallel. I see no
MK> unneeded bloat. 

Yes, I know, I was referring to the commercial LINUX i.e.
Redhat et al. 

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CA>> I vaguely recall Pascal discussing ttylinux but very very
CA>> vaguely. I did take a look at ttylinux some time back and
CA>> it seemed to be more for developers than for users
CA>> (general) such as I might be. 

MK> Somewhat. Mostly he distributes source so you can build
MK> your own, along with his configs and build script(s) but
MK> his compile is there for download. Add a kernel and voila!
MK> Ready for booting and only requires 4M. However I like
MK> building my own and add a few things that I use which is
MK> why my initrd's require 8M. I still have some elbow room
MK> though. 

I've burned out my need to 'develop' anything anymore. I just
use what is available or not. 

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