Minimally-configured Linux used to run just fine in 4 megs, and could
handle an emacs without too much pain; nowadays a 4 meg linux box takes
about as long to log in as a slowlaris box with YP and NFS automounted
mail and home...assuming both aren't running X.
On my 24 meg machine, though, I don't mind that anywhere near as much as
6 megs of compressed kernel source (when I have or suspect a badly
failed patch) or 12 megs of device driver source... The wonder of linux
is that it supports almost everything, but that doesn't mean everyone
needs all those drivers, or needs to gcc them into essentially-empty .o
files...
Keith (wanting to see if 1.0.9 can run ip_masq...)
-- "It moved faster. I swear, they are evolving right before my eyes. If you see something this big, with eight legs coming your way, let me know; I have to kill it before it develops language skills." --- Ambassador Londo Mollari, in 'Sic Transit Vir' (Babylon 5)