YD 4.0

[James Cass]

Hey guys-

I hate to digress from PPC architecture, but check out Damn Small Linux 
(http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/).  It's got everything you need (but 
maybe not everything you want) at less than 50MB, and it boots from a 
CD, or you can boot from a USB memory stick!!  You can download it for 
free and be using it in just a few minutes on x86 hardware.

-Cassj


On Jan 7, 2005, at 6:01 PM, Clinton MacDonald wrote:

> Mr. Balthazor:
>
> Brian Balthazor wrote:
>> I understood one of the benefits of linux was a
>> small footprint. I was somewhat surprised to see
>> the YD image is 3.6 GB.
>
> Welcome to the wonderful world of modern, fully featured operating 
> systems! ;-)
>
> I am sure Windows XP ships on 5 or 6 CD-ROMs, at least, and Mac OS X 
> is on 4 or 5 (or one multi-gigabyte DVD-ROM). We have come to expect a 
> lot more from our operating systems than just a file manager and a few 
> command-line formatting utilities. Many GNU/Linux distributions 
> contain dozens of contributed (or commercial) programs -- browsers, 
> games, music players, and so on -- that take up lots of room. And 
> GNU/Linux has a reputation for choices, so multiple versions of each 
> program might be made available. And when you throw in source code, 
> things start to get really large!
>
>> I've been trying to download the release from a
>> number of mirror sites to no avail. I ordered the
>> disk, though it has not yet arrived. Do I truly
>> need to download all 3.6GB to get an image of YD
>> up and running?
>
> You can get a decent installation of Fedora RC2 in just the first two 
> disks. The third CD-ROM contains "optional" items (like KDE, if I 
> recall). If you are judicious in your choices of applications, you can 
> get by installing from just the first two CD-ROMs (in Fedora for the 
> PC, however, if you make a poor choice and select something from that 
> third CD-ROM, there is no way to gracefully exit, and you must restart 
> your installation :-( ).
>
> If you are really pressed, you could possibly install YDL 4.0 without 
> any of the GUI utilities. This would bring the size down to fewer than 
> 1-GB. Also, the Ubuntu distribution of GNU/Linux prides itself in 
> making "best of" default choices of applications. There is a Ubuntu 
> distribution for PowerPC that fits on a single CD. Several folks on 
> this list have spoken well of Ubuntu (no flame wars, please!). 
> Finally, there is a distro called "Damn Small Linux" that is exactly 
> what its name suggests. The goal of that project is to have a full GUI 
> version of Linux that fits on those little "business card" sized CDs 
> (I do not know whether it is available for PowerPC, and I am *sure* it 
> is not available for the G5).
>
> Good luck!
>
> Best wishes,
> Clint
>
> -- 
> Dr. Clinton C. MacDonald | <mailto:clint DOT macdonald AT sbcglobal 
> DOT net>
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