> Are these "JFFS2 image" figures, after the JFFS2 compression? Just some > example numbers, busybox on my Arm9 here is 606KB and allows you to > throw away bash (it has ash), vi, coreutils, rpm (a weaker > implementation, but still), cpio, tar, procps, etc, etc, even networking > stuff like dhcpd and dhcpc are all in there. If you accept some small > restrictions and losses of non-core functionality you can perform a > massive reduction in distro size and packagecount with busybox with or > without an alternative libc. But while not throwing away core functionality you add extra unneeded things like extra development and testing time (and a reduced audience for testing) by using things like uclibc in a fedora based distro and hence increasing the developments costs and time to market with very little gain in size. Things like maemo already prove that you can shoehorn all core functionality that you have in a modern desktop environment (I have a browser, abiword, gaim, gnumeric, evince and other stuff installed on the standard 128M on the Nokia 770 along with the standard browser/autio/video etc that comes default) into less than 256 without having to resort to using cut down libraries like uclib which may produce other issues. The advantage of using the core fedora libraries is that you have economies of scale when it comes to testing and bug hunting. Peter -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
