<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/10/3 Alan Ward <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:award@uda.ad">award@uda.ad</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font size="2">Hi.<br>
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Several days ago there was a thread on using a streamlined standard Linux distribution. These days I have been fiddling with the new Debian Lenny version (still beta, but it seems not for long).<br>
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A "no frills, no X" install with vi, aptitude and a few other rescue tools fits comfortably into about 300 Mbytes on an old USB pendrive. Setting a maximum of 512 MBytes for a basic cluster node setup seems feasable for some applications.<br>
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Boot time from GRUB to login prompt is 22s on a 6-year-old Celeron laptop.<br>
</font></p></div></blockquote><div>On ubuntu server you can get less. Thanks to upstart.<br>The only problem is that login screen gets polluted with starting services output. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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And no - no OpenOffice on this one! ;-)<br>
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Cheers,<br>
-Alan<br>
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