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