On Sun, 1 Jan 2012, Toni Mueller <t...@debian.org> wrote: > On 12/21/2011 11:55 AM, Russell Coker wrote: > > Nowadays 100G disks are small by laptop standards and for desktops 1TB is > > about the smallest that anyone would buy. > > Focussing on the desktop is the core of this - imho - misguided idea. > I'd still like to be able have a small, self-contained, Debian that I > can run on about anything. /usr is where all the real bloat (Gnome etc.) > lies, which may or may not be available, and if you eg. consider your > favourite phone storage, that's 512MB internally, or similar, with /home > presumably on an external storage (SD card).
Do we have Debian running on phones with a configuration such that the root filesystem is small but /usr can be bigger? Note that we shouldn't be planning for future phones here because they will have more internal storage. Phone storage is rapidly getting bigger. > > Things have changed a lot since the FSSTD first came out. > > Indeed. Nowadays, we should support a much wider range of devices, not > just computers the size of refrigerators. Yes, modern phones have more RAM and storage than the fridge size servers of the early 90's. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201201020049.04656.russ...@coker.com.au
