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From: gab10@griffincd.amdahl.com (Gary A Browning)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: X space requirements
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Date: 25 Sep 92 14:39:44 GMT
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In article <19usidINN222@disaster.Germany.EU.net>, bs@Germany.EU.net
(Bernard Steiner) writes:
> In article <Bv2K61.5ow@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>,
> nuspljj@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Joseph J. Nuspl Jr.) writes:
> > In reading through the documentation for X386, ~61M of diskspace is
> > needed for the binaries.
> >
> > In reading the documentation for X11 for Linux ~5.5M needed for
> > the base system -- 21M for full system.
> >
> > This is not Linux advocacy, I would like to run X but I only have
> ~32M free.
>
> Okay, 386bsd does not yet have shlib support.
> However, I don't see the point in this discussion.
>
> What do you want - a complete system or something that fits in your
> disk
> space ?
I have a list of files to create a 'base' X11 system for 386BSD. It's around
5M. Probably like the Linux implementation, you do not get much. This base
system just has the server and xterms - but it runs. Add the other programs
as you need them and have disk space.
The same type of 'base' system can be determined for the O/S itself too. But
I do not know what that list of files would be.
--
Gary Browning | Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a
| great idea hits you, and just before you realize
| what is wrong with it.