From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/41354 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Siep Kroonenberg Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: ConTeXt ultraminimals Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 10:27:42 +0200 Message-ID: <20080605082742.GA5803@molly> References: <7871fcf50804102052m59a40efbrdace9d3bc255b03@mail.gmail.com> <4839D456.70303@wxs.nl> <200806042256.23085.john@wexfordpress.com> Reply-To: Siep Kroonenberg , 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 1212654600 29563 80.91.229.12 (5 Jun 2008 08:30:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 08:30:00 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Jun 05 10:30:41 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 1K4Arp-0005MI-65 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:30:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6CFA1FC87; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 10:29:46 +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 16670-01-2; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 10:28:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 179451FBD5; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 10:28:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9095F1FB95 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 10:28:55 +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 14385-04-10 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 10:28:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp20.nijmegen.internl.net (smtp20.nijmegen.internl.net [217.149.192.18]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EABFB1FC39 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 10:28:13 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from bitmuis (43-134.surfsnel.dsl.internl.net [145.99.134.43]) by smtp20.nijmegen.internl.net (8.13.8/2.04) with SMTP id m558Rg7H023067; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 10:27:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by bitmuis (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:27:42 +0200 Mail-Followup-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200806042256.23085.john@wexfordpress.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) 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:41354 Archived-At: On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 10:56:22PM -0400, John Culleton wrote: > 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. The Ubuntu alternate cd lets you do a text-only install. Afterwords, you can add whatever you want. > > 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. Debian is another distro which lets you pick and choose during installation. -- Siep Kroonenberg ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________