I’m curious what the smallest footprint made thus far for an OS with kernel and minimal package set is. I’m looking at some ARM Linux projects and would like to start designing an absolutely minimal SUSE Studio application for a “simulated” embedded device sporting Apache and Ruby.
Cheers,
Christian Bryant
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:36:03 +0000, christian bryant wrote:
> I’m curious what the smallest footprint made thus far for an OS with
> kernel and minimal package set is. I’m looking at some ARM Linux
> projects and would like to start designing an absolutely minimal SUSE
> Studio application for a “simulated” embedded device sporting Apache and
> Ruby.
The minimal size I’ve managed is somewhere around 120 MB.
Jim
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Hi
Custom compiled kernel, blackbox all imaged up should be < 10MB I would
imagine an arm one would be even smaller. How big was the one for your
router Jim?
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Seems counterproductive to slim the OS then put a heavyweight web server such as Apache on it. I believe Ruby can work with several frontends that are much lighter than Apache.
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:33:17 +0000, malcolmlewis wrote:
>
> Hi
> Custom compiled kernel, blackbox all imaged up should be < 10MB I would
> imagine an arm one would be even smaller. How big was the one for your
> router Jim?
That’s not built using SUSE Studio. 
I don’t know of a way to do a smaller image using Studio, though I
haven’t tried recently with some of the new smaller kernels.
Jim
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Little Susie feat. KDE3
Latest version available at Little Susie feat. KDE3
(the site and the distro is default hungarian, it can changeable in YaST, after install)
Live mode: >192MB RAM
Little Susie feat. KDE3 minimal edition
ftp://ftp.novell.hu/pub/susie/Little_Susie_feat._KDE_3_11.1minimal.i686-0.0.3.iso
Live mode: >96MB RAM (min.)
After install you can optimize the system as low as ~34MB footprint.
(+dynamic disk cache, so you will see all amount of RAM is used)
I don’t know of a way to do a smaller image using Studio, though I
haven’t tried recently with some of the new smaller kernels.
On 10/01/2010 03:00 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:33:17 +0000, malcolmlewis wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi
>> Custom compiled kernel, blackbox all imaged up should be < 10MB I would
>> imagine an arm one would be even smaller. How big was the one for your
>> router Jim?
>
> That’s not built using SUSE Studio.
>
> I don’t know of a way to do a smaller image using Studio, though I
> haven’t tried recently with some of the new smaller kernels.
You can also try using kernel-*-base instead (eg. kernel-default-base
instead of kernel-default) to shave off more MBs.
Cheers,
James T.