On Dec 10, 2007 11:13 AM, Matt Grice <mcjgrice@???> wrote:
> There's a potential problem here - each module is a squashfs filesystem.
> What would be the overhead moving from several mounted squashfs
> filesystems to several hundred?

You're right, but I think there's a happy medium. I wouldn't mind
seeing the base a little thinner and moving some of the supporting
libraries into their respective modules. I keep meaning to go on a
scavenger hunt but haven't had the time yet.

If you look at some of the "competition" like Morphix it's pretty
amazing how thin the base can be. I think with some more judicious
pruning and package selection we can keep the richness of available
tools and still give something like Damn Small Linux a run for the
money. I also think d:b is excellent in so many different areas (and
bonehead easy compared to things like CCRMA), I would even vote for
bigger modules to hone them towards being *the* solution for different
applications (like maybe Film GIMP + Cinerella for video).

-Jack