Running a Linux Live KDE Desktop In 210MB 106
An anonymous reader writes "Slax 7.0 is a Slackware-based Linux distribution that can provide a Live USB/CD environment complete with the KDE4 Plasma desktop in just 210MB of space. Slax can also be customized with other software modules to provide lightweight Linux installations for varying tasks. For those curious how this lightweight Linux distribution has pulled off the feat of being small and fast, Slax creator Tomá Matejícek wrote a technical article explaining the Slax internals with booting a modern Linux desktop in just ~200MB."
Impressive (Score:4, Insightful)
Poor editing yet again (Score:5, Insightful)
Reading both the title and summary, it was completely unclear whether "space" refers to random access memory or mass storage. They're not yet one and the same, though you wouldn't know it from reading this summary.
Re:Impressive (Score:4, Insightful)
a GUI without networking support, a javascript engine, composting window manager, an easy to develop for windowing toolkit, etc, etc.
Time moves on. More levels of abstraction require more resources but make more powerful apps possible without the programming being too hard to bother.
RAM is cheap. Programmer time is expensive...