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Re: [LUG] Wanted

 

On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 18:58 +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 18:03 +0100, cull wrote:
> > Quoting John Horne <john.horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> > The included storage is small at one GiB; external usb flash drive on  
> > the Lintop 1 and internal flash on the Lintop 2. 
> 
> 1Gb? SMALL??? Nah. I'm sure you can get a usable system within that.
> Various distributions can do a server install under 200Mb (even vanilla
> Debian is 180mb), many can do under 100Mb, specialised ones like
> Emdebian can do under 25Mb. Should provide plenty of room for your data.
>
For a server I would agree, if the installed O/S provides what you want.
Personally I was thinking of it (the lintop box) as a general purpose
PC, so 1GB would be too small :-)


John.

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