From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EIReO-0001Go-PH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:02:13 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j8MDqcB8022559; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 13:52:38 GMT Received: from vms048pub.verizon.net (vms048pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.48]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j8MDhG3F011537 for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 13:43:16 GMT Received: from mail.joat.com ([71.114.149.33]) by vms048.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2 HotFix 0.04 (built Dec 24 2004)) with ESMTPA id <0IN800DXV12DP4U3@vms048.mailsrvcs.net> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 08:49:25 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (cornholio.joat.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.joat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A3FB66EE for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:30:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.joat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cornholio [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 16815-05 for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:30:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from cdnebinge (jnet.state.pa.us [206.224.31.162]) by mail.joat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:30:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:51:06 -0400 From: "Dave Nebinger" Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] idea about small footprint gentoo In-reply-to: To: Message-id: <001a01c5bf7c$aeaa6660$4501010a@jnetlab.lcl> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; b=fdoMoIZW4Qc4sBEDSHAb5+j9IvZAx9S/DH5RtcOqiSl4HVjSFW6RZxhIDROoXCcFBsXjCSW2/nAeJLDWO1W9YQpYulAZbjy/cNMze6sEGdFWaZSJl+CP8dbu8wNmpbVvvN14WlAFWDQzH7i0mYVUdIZ40Jj+W5cEIlNveqXEsR4=; c=nofws; d=joat.com; q=dns; s=selector1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new 2.3.2 (20050629) at joat.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j8MDhG3F011537 X-Archives-Salt: 5897d244-33d5-498b-9b34-2f160decb0c1 X-Archives-Hash: 8504ad076f5565be1ff0d97605ce4221 > What do you think about this? Does it have a chance to work? I don't think it stands a snowball's chance in ... Well, you get the idea. Sascha, I'm thinking that if you start with a bare-bones handbook install you'll have a minimum system, at least for gentoo support. It won't have X, desktops, many of the services & tools, etc. If you're thinking about an embedded device (i.e. a router) then you wouldn't want to use a source-based install like gentoo on it, you'd either want to use a binary distribution (many examples of minimum linux distributions out there, check http://www.distrowatch.com for variations) or you could create a home-brew distribution from a customized setup based upon gentoo, but a hand-generated distrib could be difficult to pull together (difficult to identify all of necessary files that must be on the distro). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list