On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, David Flood wrote: > As an alternative to Cygwin, I've been playing with real systems under the > VMWare player but have yet to find a distribution of Linux or BSD that is > "lite" enough to have a small footprint but will still compile Xastir and > related sub-programs. So I guess that trying to work around the bugs in > Cygwin is the only realistic option right now.
The 'lightest' install I've ever done was a Slackware installation. Back then Slackware used *.tgz files for everything, and I could pick and chooses individual packages quite easily after I installed the "A" set of disks. The 2nd lightest was probably ZipSlack, also from the Slackware distribution. This was a complete text-based Linux development environment that fit in 100MB. I then added a few packages from the 'x' packages and had X11 running. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir