On Sunday, May 13, 2012 12:42:46, Joey Hess wrote: > Adam Borowski wrote: > > Except that busybox has xz support, and is loaded from an udeb way before > > any regular debs are seen. Ie, there is no reason to stop "core > > packages" from using decent compression. > > Yes there is. busybox is used on a variety of systems, which are > unlikely to have xz installed. The small benefit of better compressing > base does not justify narrowing the set of systems on which busybox can > be used. > > > There's no reason to keep it to amd64/i386 as well -- in fact, it's i386 > > which is most likely to use unassisted install with extremely low memory. > > I'm not aware of armel/mips boxes with 64MB ram that load d-i themselves. > > Many arm systems have 64 mb of ram or less.
The NSLU2 boxes that were common to install a port of Debian onto are one such example, although I'm not sure how realistic a Debian install would be on them today. [These were discontinued in 2008.] Specs: 32 MB RAM, somewhere between 8 MB and 16 MB of onboard Flash. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2 I own a couple of these things although I'm no longer using them -- Debian was an extremely tight fit even when these things were new. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us GPG Key: 4096R/0x1E759A726A9FDD74
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