[CrackMonkey] Hey!

[Deirdre Saoirse]

On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Joey Hess wrote:

> Some of the "embedded" linux systems I've had exposure to[1] can get a
> graphical environment (not X) up in only 2 mb of flash, leaving 14 MB
> in which to implement some kind of web browser.

You miss the point: I'm talking ONLY 16 MB of Flash. No other RAM.

> I've seen others[2] that use a web browser written for the frame buffer
> console.

But how big was the file footprint + the running footprint?

> Heck, 16MB of flash is around 20 to 30 MB of space, if you compress
> the filesystem. I can almost fit a base Debian install in that!

But you couldn't RUN it.

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