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Lähettäjä: Martijn Dekkers
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Vastaanottaja: dng
Aihe: Re: [Dng] Dng Digest, Vol 5, Issue 11
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> But we have to be realistic here: in the last 15 years the
> requirements for a "minimal" install of a GNU/Linux system have
> enormously expanded in size, number and variety of packages. No distro
> can currently install a working system for less than about 1 GB, even
> without X, and this is not a small footprint, at least to those of us
> who were fans of micro-distributions (muLinux, tomsrtbt, bbc, and the
> like).
>


Alpine Linux requires only 130MB of storage, and less than 64MB RAM if you
install on disk. It can run the whole thing from RAM as well (default
install)
There are a few others (DSL, LinuxBBQ) but Alpine is probably the most
advanced whilst staying tiny.