Re: SEUL: Re: Minilinux (fwd)

[David Cary <d.cary@ieee.org>]

>From: William T Wilson <fluffy@benatar.dunadan.com>
>cc: seul-project@seul.org
...
>On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Star's End wrote:
>
>> Would such a stripped down version be suitable for our base system or
>> would we be missing to many things. Generally What I consider the
>> absolute minimum for a linux system is what is on my root partition and
>> it as about 100 Megs.
>
>I don't recommend trimming the system down in this way.  Our goal is not
>to make the smallest possible distribution, but to make the simplest
>possible distribution.

Exactly. Sometimes *larger* is simpler/better.

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