From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Mike N. wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:56:54 +0100, Adam
> <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near the
bridge"> wrote:
>
>> How would you fit ubuntu into a little router or a sky+ pvr?
>>
>> Let alone a mobile phone or a pda.
>
>    Which distributions are 'tiny' and how many are there?
>

Blliemy here are quite a few ranging from dsl (damn small linux) through to...

http://bengross.com/smallunix.html



>>>    Collaborate and put out some really polished stuff.  But then, this
>>> reflects the ancestry of Linux: Everyone wants their own distribution
>>> because it's fun.   Nobody wants to work on the mindnumbingly boring
>>> install stuff.   Somewhat like the old OS/2 printer drivers:
no one wants
>>> to work on the boring stuff and get it to just work.
>> Nah. I've been playing with Suse & Ubuntu & they're pretty
polished. I
>> have an old laptop & I chucked a variety of kit at them &
no problems.
>
>    In my experience, the basic install went well.   So they have been
> putting much work into installs.  But I'm referring to the rollback
> capabilities that Geo mentioned.  Like in the recent QT incompatibility -
> at least one person reinstalled RH and updated from scratch.   But since
> the reinstall ended up with the same components, they had the same problem.
> Solutions were to uninstall the problem component, find and roll back to
> the previous version.

It depends on the app/component if it's something which everything else
depends on & which has had a major revision e.g. apis have changed etc
then it makes little diff what OS you are on. it not it's fairly simple. I
had a problem with SANE & my scanner. Basically the old sane worked but
the new one didn't because the scanner reports as an Epson however it's
actually a rebadged plustek & you have to tell it to ignore the USB
vendor info & force it to see that it's a plustek etc.

Anyway....to cut a long story short I am using the SANE backend from
mandrake 9. If I install anew I install all of sane, uninstall sane-backend
& then install the sane-backend from the mdk9 cd.

Adam

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