Thank you all for your reply.
I want to run a Lazarus GTK2 application within a minimal linux embedded
systems with
1 GB flash, 256 MB Ram en 500 MHz VIA cpu.
I searched for live distributions, not writing to flash. Till now I used
the Slax distribution.
For a new project it had an unacceptable boot time of 3 minutes = 180
seconds.
I went to Tiny Core Linux running in RAM = fast.
Now my Lazarus application is running on Tiny Core Linux.
OS : 23.9 MByte
Libs : 5.1 MByte --> Total 29 MByte
Boot time power-on till grub : 12 sec
Boot time grub till GUI : 25 sec --> total 37 sec
Start time Lazarus applicatie 2.8 MB : 7 sec
Boot time improvement 180 --> 37 Sec = 80%
Do you really think a mainstream distribution with fpGUI can beat this?
Anton Vogelaar
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Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
2010/1/17 Juha Manninen <[email protected]>:
In my opinion, minimal distros like Tiny Core Linux are not suitable for what
you are doing now. It is like asking for trouble (which you have got already).
GTK2 library + all required libs is a big amount of SW. When you install all
that, your system is not so tiny any more. Why not install some mainstream
distro with less effort and concentrate on "useful" challenges.
I can't agree more! And that is exactly why I created fpGUI Toolkit
project (see my signature for details) - no requirements to large
libraries etc, which makes deployment on such small distro no problem
at all. As long as you have X11 running, you can run any fpGUI
application - no GTK1, GTK2 or Qt required it just needs XLib which
comes with X11.
Minimal distros can be useful as a dedicated server. They can revive an old,
otherwise obsolete PC.
Or make you current PC feel like it is supposed too - VERY FAST! :-)
With todays bloated GUI desktops or OSes, they simply max out current
CPU's so you really don't get any speed gain. Install tiny linux
distors or Win3.11 or Win95 on today's PC's if you want to see FAST
computers.
[disclaimer: In no way am I suggesting your run Win3.11 again, but it
is a laugh to see how fast applications of that time run using it on
current systems. OS/2 2.1 and OS/2 3.0 absolutely flies on my current
system. :-) ]
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