02-05-2024, 12:16 AM
I am still on the hunt for potential candidates for removal. Please post if you have any suggestions. Please keep in mind that the target of this project is to serve older hardware.
Suggestions driver, firmware & other file for removal?
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02-05-2024, 12:16 AM
I am still on the hunt for potential candidates for removal. Please post if you have any suggestions. Please keep in mind that the target of this project is to serve older hardware.
02-10-2024, 03:01 PM
(02-05-2024, 12:16 AM)John Wrote: I am still on the hunt for potential candidates for removal. Please post if you have any suggestions. Please keep in mind that the target of this project is to serve older hardware. Hi John! Badwolf is the only web browser I need so wouldn't mind if the others were removed. Badwolf have some kind of glitch. For example if I log in to my email and click on a link it disappears as if struck by lightning. Now I copy links and usually opens another instance of Badwolf an paste the link in the other one. Since the space is kind of tiny I minimize the first instance. Sometimes I have three or more instances of Badwolf running and it's OK. Another thing that I would suggest is that java script is enabled by default. Don't know how many times I have forgotten to enable js when I'm going to check my email and cause problems so I have to start over. So removing the other web browsers and giving Badwolf an overhaul is my suggestion. // meo
02-17-2024, 01:10 AM
wget, perhaps? I don't think that it's used that often, and those who need it would know how to install it. It's number 700 on Debian's list of regularly used programs.
I think en_US alone would be enough, without the three other variants, but probably the space saved would be negligible.
02-17-2024, 05:56 AM
Fighting for a few kb at this point and running headlong into packaging "custom" vs. upstream etc...and what you want it to be:
agree on thinning some browsers htop (top is in busybox, htop isn't in antiX core) /usr/share/wallpaper/grub/back.png 531k (the gray "back.png" is 531k vs the desktop file dsl.jpg one dir up 117K Perhaps one these may be thinned (?) xmms cmus mpg123 mpv It's only a few k, but it's not clear to me: netscsid vs. (man =>) wodim (also provides cdrecord) I'm a vi-guy, so emacs can go emacs-gtk 3.6MB emacsen-common timgm6mb-soundfont ~6MB -- can it be pruned/repacked? Deja-vu truetypes are the biggest and not that dissimilar from P052/URW Bookman etc. ~2MB installed Assuming that you want to reduce the iso size, what about the compression itself? Just ideas.
02-17-2024, 03:08 PM
FWIW, if you are only trying to provide a minimal OS, you should kinda go the Gentoo route - smallest DE/WM and the ability to add packages as desired. Maybe have a script(s) available to "instantly" add certain subsets of apps/features. JMO
02-18-2024, 12:24 AM
Thank you for the suggestions, great stuff so far!
02-19-2024, 01:03 AM
John, I've got a big one you can look at.
This is an interesting directory Code: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/ These are all the same files with 12 different names, the compression applies to each individually. 300MB decompressed 80MB in the squashfs 8MB is ideal conditions as this is about the size of the deb package How far upstream is this problem? I see the same issue in MX, Ubuntu & Debian. provided by package libgl1-mesa-dri
02-19-2024, 10:36 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-20-2024, 01:16 AM by Yan.
Edit Reason: Made location of inode in directory list clearer.
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Although there are 12 entries, there's only one file. You can check this by doing ls -i to see the inodes (first column):
Code: $ ls -ali
02-20-2024, 12:02 AM
Thanks guys, good hunting!
02-23-2024, 03:14 AM
I used gftp and was surprised to see how fancy it was. I think the command line version of ftp is enough, especially since no newbies will be using ftp.
That might save a whole megabyte, so perhaps my suggestion is not very helpful. |
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