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Building on Knoppix and Damn Small Linux



Robert Edmonds wrote:
> A base Debian system should fit on a 64 MB stick.  I can't imagine how
> many bloated desktop environments would be required to push a compressed
> Debian root filesystem above even 700 MB.

Just for the records:

The rootfs with standard base system, x-window-system-core *and* the
complete kde environment is 994MB of size.

Compressed into the iso-image, it is 378M. As you see, a DVD can easily
contain both KDE and GNOME (and OpenOffice.org :).

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