Linux software...

[mdulcey at pryder.pn.com (Mark J. Dulcey)]

On Sun, 23 Feb 1997,  John  Ziele wrote:

> I was wondering if there was a Linux version that would take
> less than 210 megabites of hard space.

Although it's true that the popular distributions of Linux will take a lot
of hard disk space if you install everything, it certainly isn't necessary
to do that.  You can do a selective install, leaving out stuff that you
don't want.  Candidates for omission:

1.  X Windows.
2.  Programming languages that you won't use.
3.  All the programming tools, if you don't plan to do development.
    (Note that you do need GCC if you want to build a kernel.)
4.  Games.
5.  Emacs.
6.  Optional utilities.
7.  Extra shells.  Make sure you install bash and tcsh; the rest can go.

A fairly minimal Linux system that I installed on a system destined to be
used as a router took up less than 30MB of hard disk space, and I could
have been even more agressive about eliminating stuff if there had been a
need.