On 20-11-2015 21:41, Rugxulo wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 5:05 PM, Alain Mouette <ala...@pobox.com> wrote: >> I personaly prefer a mainstream distribution. I used Ubuntu 14.04 LTS >> The reason is that if other programs are need in the Linux part, it >> would be easy to install. >> Dosemu has a pretty good interation with Linux... > I'm not sure what is the best foundation to build upon. Debian? Arch? > Gentoo?? Linux From Scratch??? (Heck, even FreeBSD used to support > DOSEMU, but nowadays you're probably stuck with an ancient QEMU 0.11 > or perhaps bhyve, which I've never tried). My choice was not based on "smallest" but just "small enough". Ubuntu is what I use for a dozen VMs in my dayly use. I have a base-VM uppon which I build them all and I like to have some confort, I just used that one.
Just to give you an idea of a few things: *) do it without Synaptic, it uses huge libaries *) compile Dosemu on a different VM and copy to the target for install *) unfragment the disk image Also there could be a general cleanup of unused packages, I just left it all there As you can see, I am absolutely not an optimization fanatic ;-) In fact it may be the oposite, I use dosemu as a TOOL, and I usualy need other tools to work with it Alain > > I'm not complaining. Your distro is interesting, but I'm not sure I > have much insight for how to noticeably improve it. > > Puppy is quite a bit smaller than Ubuntu. I'm honestly not sure if > they still make Ubuntu derivatives anymore. I'm still (sometimes) > natively using ancient Lucid Puppy, which is considered quite old. I > do see some builds (and forgot I briefly tested under VM) Tahr-Pup > 6.x, but I don't know the details. The only real advantage to Puppy is > leanness (perhaps too much), thus much smaller size. Of course, > whichever Puppy version being compatible with an LTS release isn't bad > by any stretch. Though I don't honestly know if it's worth switching, > if you know what I mean. > > So I don't really keep up-to-date with Puppy by any stretch, even if I like > it. > > 1). http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/puppy-tahr/iso/ > > (unfortunately, the following topics are somewhat old, so they may not > apply to all versions) > > 2a). http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=57096 > 2b). http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=87318 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
