Wookey wrote:
> Yesterday the very new Emdebian Grip distro booted on Balloon - the
> first boot on a non-x86 target.

Congratulation! ;)

> 
> Grip is Debian lenny binary-compatible but somewhat smaller due to
> having the worst of the bloat removed. It's nice because Debian
> packages on top of it just work. The base debootstrap
> rootfs+networking tools was 72Mb.
> 
> Installing random TCL packges on top of Grip (which brings in a pile
> of Debian stuff like pango) gets up to a 190Mb system (as opposed to
> about 400-something for plain debian). (you save ~30Mb by having the
> Emdebian grip instead of Debian lenny binary and source packages files).
> 
> So that's pretty good. If we don't find anything horribly broken grip
> will probably become the default balloon distro. 
> 
> Wookey