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Date:      Thu, 7 Sep 2006 13:55:15 -0500
From:      Craig Boston <craig@xfoil.gank.org>
To:        Bill Vermillion <bv@wjv.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Adding a 'D - date' option in 'cat'
Message-ID:  <20060907185515.GA69221@nowhere>
In-Reply-To: <20060907162325.GJ94278@wjv.com>
References:  <20060907120055.91D8A16A54D@hub.freebsd.org> <20060907162325.GJ94278@wjv.com>

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On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 12:23:25PM -0400, Bill Vermillion wrote:
> Not everyone needs a system with all the bells-and-whistles ever
> invented and many want a sysstem that can be made small and compact
> and eliminate things not needed.  That last small BSD I installed
> was on an 800MB drive that left me 400MB user space.   So many
> other OSes just give up when given something that small.

It's not hard to trim it down even further.  My router runs off a 64MB
flash card and has a mostly complete FreeBSD system.  Only big thing I
had to rip out was gcc.

And this is FreeBSD 6.1, not 4.x.  With a full set of man pages!  And
screen, vim, nmap, rsync, and isc-dhcpd added!  And it's still only
using 38MB of the 64!

Okay so I sort of cheated and /usr is compressed with geom_uzip, but it
still amazes me how so much functionality can be contained in such
"little" (by today's standards anyway) space.

Craig



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