On 20/03/11 18:21, David Tweed wrote: > Hi, one of those general suckless software questions: > > I'm in a position where I'll be both commuting a lot and needing to > write a lot of text (review coments) over the coming months. I've got > a "spare" old but very small, low weight notebook PC I plan to try and > use. The only requirements I have are that there be a decent text > editor, a filesystem that can hold several files and the ability to > move files onto/off-of my permanent full-capacity PC. (I'd actually > prefer not to have any other facilities.) >
I would suggest building yourself a cross-toolchain (is your target is a different arch). Then build a kernel with suspend support and whatever else you need (framebuffer console?). Then a static busybox and vim (or whatever editor you prefer). Throw said kernel/binaries on a partition and create a link called linuxrc to your favorite text editor (assuming you can run commands from your text editor - exiting it will panic the kernel). I guess you'll also want a swap partition to suspend to. To suspend echo 'disk' or 'mem' to /sys/power/state. To transfer stuff to your main machine you could add dropbear (ssh) - assuming you have some form of networking. It'll definitely boot/unsuspend faster than ewwbuntwo. -- Thomas Spurden
