Thread: Debian SID for 770
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ulises is offline ulises
2008-02-21 , 10:58
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Originally Posted by Benson View Post
Not that we shouldn't, just playing el abogado del Diablo:
Hey, someone has to do it

Originally Posted by Benson View Post
b) run it from a 64MB USB drive
c) install it on archaic hardware with less than 128 MB disk
Are you calling my 770 archaic? Seriously, a 770 has serious memory limitations (unless you buy an extra card). I just recently bought a card and until then I was very frustrated because I couldn't get KDE, etc (penguitbait's ports) because of space. I'd like people with a 770 and no card not feeling that way. Plus, I have a 1G card. Say Debian+X+Desktop takes 700M, how much is there left for, say, a movie (in case I'm traveling and bored) or mp3s? Not much I say. Reducing the size of the OS is certainly good IMO.

Originally Posted by Benson View Post
As I understand it, debian is very modular, so even if you had a 120 MB image that you could flash an N800 with, you could promptly tear into it, removing all packages you don't need, and get to a clean, working, much smaller system in minutes. You could argue that it should come full, because removing packages is easier (does not require a network connection) than installing them.
The network availability point is good. Still, I'm talking about stuff that might be somewhat useless such as g++. And again, maybe not all people are knowledged enough to strip their OS to the bare minimum (I for one am not and I'm trying to learn and save the effort to others).

Originally Posted by Benson View Post
My real opinion is that the image should have everything you need to get by comfortably until you find a network connection to install more stuff from. Not totally barebones, because there's no hard space requirement, but not bloated either...
Okay, what would _everything you need_ be? Video editor? Audio editor? A couple of apps come to mind that almost everybody would benefit from such as pdf reader, media player, web browser and text editor.

Originally Posted by Benson View Post
I'm assuming that such an image can be gotten under 128 MB to reflash the system with debian (no MMC req'd) at some point. Though I'd rather not take advantage of such capability, at least not till I get a backup tablet...
Well, for now, even though I'm trying not to install useless stuff (why would x11-apps require me to install gcc I wonder?) I'm concentrating on coming up with a usable system.

Cheerio and keep the good comments coming!

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Last edited by ulises; 2008-02-21 at 11:14.