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Old 05-27-2013
Linux Building Light weight Distro
Don't know whether this is right category for this question. I request please consider it and advice correct cotegory if required. Here goes my question.
I want to build a distribution using debian/ubuntu. Currently i'm refering LinuxFromScratch.org, which is asking me a space for around 10gb. I know a distribution slitaz (SliTaz GNU/Linux (en)) which is merely of 35mb in size.
My question is how can we build such a light distribution when just kernel comes in 50+mb.
Please let me know about any resource that will guide me for building a light distribution. I want to have minimum number of package.
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Old 05-27-2013
No need to make your own, there are lots and lots of 'light' distributions. You could check out 'Damn Small Linux' for example, it boasts being small enough to run from pendrive and booting in 16MB of RAM.

Problem is, 'light' is not quite so light when you throw in an X server and window manager, particularly Windows-alikes such as KDE or Gnome.
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Old 05-27-2013
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Originally Posted by kg_gaurav
My question is how can we build such a light distribution when just kernel comes in 50+mb.
The kernel is not 50 megabytes, more like 5.

If the kernel is built with every possible device driver that's an awful lot of modules, but 50 megabytes still seems like an awful lot. Don't mistake the source code for the kernel itself -- you don't need the .c files to make the system boot. A light distro just gives you the binary part.
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Old 06-14-2013
all right then once i downloaded kernel source and wanna compile it. mean just wanna get binary. what should i do?
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