Re: ConTeXt ultraminimals

[John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com>]

On Sunday 25 May 2008 05:04:22 pm Hans Hagen wrote:
> Patrick Gundlach wrote:
> > Hello Hans,
> >
> >>>>> But also much bigger. Having an ubuntu/context (vmware) image
> >>>>> is not hard to create, but it will take something like 2 gig.
> >>>>> Nice idea, though.
> >>
> >> so much?
> >
> > With a lot of effort one could cut it down a bit. The problem is
> > that there is no way to get a minimal ubuntu/gnome desktop, only
> > the regular one with all kinds of software (open office etc.) pre
> > installed. You can remove this software, but I don't know how far
> > to go. It takes some time experimenting. I've played around with
> > this quite a bit and I always get about 2 gig of disk space.
> > Without java, this could be 1.5 or so. Installing such a vm
> > (vmware based) takes about 10-20 minutes, including all vmware
> > hacks. So this is the smallest part.
>
> aren't there those tiny linuxes of some 50 meg ?
>
> Hans

Slackware allows you to pick and choose which software you install. 
And a CDR variant, Slax, will run from a mini-cdr.  There are other 
diminutive Linuxes. 

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