Fedora Mini

[mbneto]

in my case 128Mb RAM is fine, the problem is the disk space.  I'd like
to use CF card (128 or 256Mb).

-mb

On Apr 6, 2005 9:36 AM, seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 07:21 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 12:15:42AM -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> > > I am curious if anyone thought about starting some sort of "Small Server"
> > > fork of Fedora. I figure it's not something that is a pure fantasy,
> > > considering that Spot manages Aurora all by himself. Come to think of it,
> > > what forks and derivatives of Fedora do we know?
> >
> > There have been tools like miniconda. I've been down this path a bit and you
> > hit a single fundamental near-insoluble problem - up2date/yum/rpm. They burn
> > resources and need some major rework at the rpm level - work that nobody
> > afaik is assigned to do (I suspect we are talking full time engineer on
> > such work).
> >
> > apt + dpkg on the other hand sucks in lots of other ways but works.
> 
> the memory footprint in yum in rawhide has come way down for
> non-transaction things, but you'd still need to break up the transaction
> into chunks to keep the rpm ts from being to big for a global update,
> for example. It's not impossible, actually, it would just take some
> restructuring. The only question is - how little ram are we talking
> about now?
> 
> -sv
> 
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