On 9/17/19 12:23 PM, Marc Espie wrote: > On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 02:31:59PM -0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: >> (To be clear, I think installing a restricted subset of the OS for >> security reasons is pointless here, but can be really helpful when you >> have to deal with limited space in partitions - and those just saying >> "storage is cheap" are ignoring the often very real cost of getting >> to the machine to replace the storage :) > > Ditto. > > We still run on somewhat cramped machines, and even replacing an SD card > with a bigger model might sometimes be an issue because of various reasons. > > ... or stuff with utterly outdated controler formats, where you may > get in situations that your SCSI3 disk buys it and that's it, no more > full installs for you. >
Ditto followed by a single quote? We also work great on some really slow storage, like USB flash drives. Leaving out x*tgz, and compXX.tgz are big time savers when upgrading a flash based install. On the other hand, KARL and library randomization are also killing those solutions...so I guess it might be time to move on? Nick.
