On 9/29/07, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brandorr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Not happening. You only have 1G of storage. Solaris would need some > > serious trimming to fit. (And maybe compression). With 256M of RAM it > > would be crazy.. Here Linux really is the best choice. (The eee on the > > other hand, might be doable). > > With this sight, Solaris will never appear in embedded systems.
It's not particularly accurate, either. The disk footprint of a fairly minimal install, with enough to run X and some sort of desktop (twm, for example) is in the 200 megabyte range. You can get a lot onto a CD - still well under 1G (slim install is just over half that). Until recently I had a production server running S10 that only had 256M in it. It worked fine. Basic desktop use will work fine in rather less than 256M. You'ld have trouble with gnome as currently built (medialib bloats the running sizes quite a lot, but that could be trimmed), and I certainly don't think you would enjoy running much in the way of java or staroffice. Even firefox would be a problem if you visited more than a few pages. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
