Thread: 770 - the forgotten tablet
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Modulok is offline Modulok
2008-02-07 , 15:07
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#82
Originally Posted by Johnx View Post
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As someone who was previously tasked with getting Debian to fit in a 512MB flash drive for work (web kiosks) I can tell you that it is very, very easy to start diverging from your upstream distro when space becomes a problem. Fitting Maemo in 128MB of flash is quite an incredible feat, and obviously sacrifices were required along the way. I can tell you right now that my minimally functional Debian requires 550MB+ of flash. This can be reduced but it will never fit in the onboard NAND. Also, Debian is definitely using more memory than ITOS. This can be reduced but probably not solved entirely without making it something else besides
I hope you dont misunderstand the output of the "top" command as memory usage. For a memory manager it makes sense to allocate more ram than needed for speed issues (less fragmentation). If other applications need ram it can free some.
Just look how many windows you can open in debian and how many in maemo on our tablet .

I think 550MB is a good start . I see no need to put debian on the internal NAND, which cannot be replaced easily.
Last edited by Modulok; 2008-02-07 at 15:14.