[good] Re:Linux World / Network World 2006

[ted leslie]

with 8 GB usb keys being 100$ in china now,
and 1GB flash cards for 33$ on ebay (new),
in a year REALLY SMALL linux distros will be one that occupy a Gig.
I produce linux vpn/firewalls on 100$ 1GB CF cards and a 30$  CF to IDE converter.
I use a normal (non-GUI) SUSE9.X install for that.
The only future i can see in small linux distros is watches,
i have a 66Mhz dragon ball abacus watch that runs palmOS (full 160x160 gui desktop),
id love to run Linux on it, but i dont think their is a linux 
that will fit into 6MB (with a GUI and graphic lib support)?
but most embeds (other then a watch) will be a min. of 512MB
(as that will be a cost of 20$) within the year.
So if watches drive the "small linux" distros, thats great,
but other then that I can't imagine people continuing to 
invest to much time in small linux distros - 
given small really is 512MB now or soon.

-tl

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:18:55 -0400
Kevin Cozens <kcozens-qazKcTl6WRFWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Walter Dnes wrote:
> >   - small distros that boot and run off a 512-megabyte USB key
> 
> That isn't small. Get Damn Small Linux (~50Meg file) and you only need a 64Meg 
> USB key.
> 
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