30 May
2013
30 May
'13
2:39 p.m.
On Thu, 30 May 2013, Tothwolf wrote:
On Thu, 30 May 2013, Cory Smelosky wrote:
I'll still prefer 4.3BSD...which can happily fit on smaller than even an
RP06. ;)
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On Thu, 30 May 2013, Dave McGuire wrote:
Memory wise, the kernel isn't /too/ bad, but userspace stuff, both memory
and disk wise, modern Linux distributions are /terrible/. Even with a
barebones Debian installation (7.0, Wheezy), without X, X libraries, gcc,
locales, and after removing /usr/share/doc, it only trims down to ~600MB.
It can still fit into 1GB, but just barely. By comparison, I once used
Slackware on a 40MB hard drive without X, and on a 340MB drive with gcc,
X, Emacs, and LaTeX, plus room to spare. A 1GB SCSI drive just seemed
massive back then.
Yep. At least in a very non-scientific
comparison. A
SPARCstation-IPX running NetBSD feels a lot more responsive than a
Raspberry Pi running Linux. I've run both, but not side-by-side.
Software "weight" probably has a lot to do with it.
Agreed. GNU/Linux likes to be a bit...big.