[lug] Linux Distr. Size (was: no fun with the sun)

[Ferdinand P. Schmid]

Well - my observation is that 32 MB of RAM don't do it for Linux anymore.
When I started the RedHat install it said that it needed to start swap before
the actual installer could start because I don't have enough memory.
So we are down to 64 MB or more as minimum requirement for RedHat.  Maybe I
should investigate Slackware if they have a distribution for Sparc.  On PCs I
only used Caldera and RedHat so far but my PC has 128 MB of SDRAM and is
overall quite zippy.

If Slackware is just as porky as RedHat then I may need to spend around $100
for 32 MB of extra memory to get any use out of my Sparc Classic.

Ferdinand

socket at peakpeak.com wrote:

> "Harris, James A (Jim)" <HarriJA at LOUISVILLE.STORTEK.COM> writes:
> <snip>
> > One final note: It is amazing how large these Linux installations have
> > grown.  520 MB can't hold a RedHat installation with X anymore.  Even NT
> > with everything selected is only around 300 MB.
> <snip>
>
> Interesting that you mention this.  As we speak, I'm setting up my
> laptop with Slackware 7.  You might have seen it at the mini-expo held
> at CU last month, where I brought my laptop to show off the
> scalability on the other end.  The great thing about Linux for me is
> that even *with* massive distributions, I can still select exactly
> which packages I want, cut some corners, and trim the fat.
>
> I'm was using just about 60 megs for a system to browse the web with
> lynx, take notes and read email with emacs, make scripts with perl and
> python, display individual images, ssh, telnet, ftp, and the less
> obvious bits necessary for booting and minimal use.
>
> As I speak, I'm building 2.2.14 with a smaller array of features,
> pulling a good 8 megs (at least) of modules installed by slackware by
> default, which will bring it down to 39 megs used on the hard drive
> until I plug it into the network to install emacs, perl, and python.
>
> The obligatory microsoft snub is here: I've read that Windows 2000
> requires a minimum of 64 megs of real memory to run.
>
> --
> Chris Riddoch                  socket at peakpeak.com
> Will provide pseudo-insightful commentary for food
>                    http://www.peakpeak.com/~socket

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