From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Thu Dec 17 14:16:57 2009 X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at pp.htv.fi From: Eero Tamminen Organization: Koti To: Miro Kropacek Subject: Re: [MiNT] sources of oldstuff package Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:11:44 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: mint@lists.fishpool.fi References: <200912162059.28981.oak@helsinkinet.fi> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200912172111.44412.oak@helsinkinet.fi> X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: oak@helsinkinet.fi Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Hi, On Thursday 17 December 2009, Miro Kropacek wrote: > > Because everything is linked to a single binary (and due to being > > strictly size optimized), it could give quite a bit of disk usage > > savings on MiNT lacking shared libs. > > Disk usage maybe but the loading time will be horrible. Now every tool > would need to load ~1 MB instead of ~100 KB... On Linux Busybox is only couple of hundred KB, I hope it wouldn't be in megabyte size even with static linking, but it's a good point nevertheless. Even if MiNT doesn't support shared libraries, maybe it could support sharing binaries in RAM (on machines having MMU)? (I don't really know what current MiNT supports, I was using MiNT in 90's, now I'm more of a mailing list lurker.) > Another thing is some of > the most essential tools (like mentioned login, getty, init, networking > tools like ifconfig) are hacked specially for mint -- there's some common > basis but it's different code after all. Question is if it's still needed > (i.e. if it's possible to take newest linux init/login/whatever and adapt > it without too much effort or not). Hm. Now the distros are moving to Upstart (dependency based init from Ubuntu). Busybox is still nice for rescue operations as it fits onto a floppy and provides most important tools. First it should of course work with MiNT though. I was mainly wondering whether anybody has tried it... - Eero