[RULE] Re: "RULE for Debian"

[M. Fioretti]

Paul,

I am including the RULE mailing list in this reply because another
member suggested RULE on Debian just an hour ago. Please subscribe to
the list, even temporarily, if you want (as I hope) reply there too.

I'll add when I have time :-( a link to WCLP on the RULE web pages,
and hope you can do the same for RULE.

In general, the bloat is not in the distro. The fact that to make
lightweight stuff both Red Hat and Debian users had to start a
sub-project speaks volumes about this.

Practically speaking, what we could and should share, without nobody
giving up his favourite project, are:

1) testing and configuration of kdrive, see the RULE page on it
2) same as above for the kernel proper
3) compile time options and tricks to build deb or RPM packages of
   useful packages (abiword, mutt, balsa, whatever) smaller and with
   less dependencies.
4) anything else I forgot, and oh, yeah, documentation...

I look forward to hear from you!

Ciao,
	Marco Fioretti

On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 18:43:40 at 06:43:40PM -0400, Paul Nijjar (pnijjar at utm.utoronto.ca) wrote:
> 
> 	Dear Marco,
> 
> 	I saw your thread on the linux-kernel mailing list about
> "Unbloating the kernel". In it you asked whether anybody was interested in
> doing "RULE for other platforms". For a couple of years now we have been
> running a similar lightweight subdistribution based on Debian. We call it
> the Working Centre Linux Project, and it has a (lousy) webpage at
> 
> http://wclp.sourceforge.net
> 
> Our current solution uses a network installer called FAI to install the
> system on people's computers. I am half-heartedly trying to get a CD-ROM
> based installer working, but it is not going so well.
> 
> We use standard X and standard Debian packages, and so far the system is
> usable (if not fast) on a machine with 16MB of RAM.
> 
> I am not sure whether there we have anything to offer the RULE project,
> but if there is then please let me know.
> 
> - Paul

-- 
Marco Fioretti                 m.fioretti, at the server inwind.it
Red Hat for low memory         http://www.rule-project.org/en/

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