From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/41349 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Culleton Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: ConTeXt ultraminimals Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 22:56:22 -0400 Organization: Able Indexers and Typesetters Message-ID: <200806042256.23085.john@wexfordpress.com> References: <7871fcf50804102052m59a40efbrdace9d3bc255b03@mail.gmail.com> <4839D456.70303@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212634690 13532 80.91.229.12 (5 Jun 2008 02:58:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 02:58:10 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Jun 05 04:58:51 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K45gh-0006Mx-HC for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:58:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 464A81FC06; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 04:58:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 17992-02-8; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 04:57:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A8411FB98; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 04:57:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D98DD1FB74 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 04:57:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 17992-02-7 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 04:56:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from QMTA05.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta05.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.48]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A0AA1FB98 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 04:56:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from OMTA03.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.27]) by QMTA05.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id Zwis1Z0090bG4ec550Wr00; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:56:37 +0000 Original-Received: from c-69-143-80-104.hsd1.md.comcast.net ([69.143.80.104]) by OMTA03.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id a2wc1Z00B2F2MgM3P00000; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:56:37 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=U4BriyfjAAAA:8 a=qMoymCQNAAAA:8 a=e_DkmeUKAAAA:8 a=E-mlvgo2-llBTmjAqh0A:9 a=YATEMVgRvSiZ8wFBTlYA:7 a=NtSdIlxfsv0vwUPa47uETX9WssUA:4 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 In-Reply-To: <4839D456.70303@wxs.nl> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:41349 Archived-At: 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. 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