[dev] Virtual machine bounty

[Yudhi Widyatama]

On 5/31/06, Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org> wrote:
>
> Someone just submitted a vm the other day. On the other hand, it might
> be useful to have the choice between different distributions, this one
> was based on FC4.


> Its about 260 MB of Zip file. Is it too large ?


It's not *too* large, but obviously the smaller, the better. If you
> could strip it down even more, that would be great. Does this Ubuntu
> version have a desktop at all?


No, it has no desktop. Shell-only and sshd-only. Given my connection is only
80 - 96 kbps, the image will take 9 hours to upload. I'll try to experiment
more, hoping it can be smaller.

I also played with DSL in the past, but made the same experience. I
> found it hard to add new packages not provided through MyDSL or to
> even upgrade to newer DSL versions. But the could be only me, because
> I didn't digg deep enough.

Well, I had a limited success trying to install apache2 & php4 in DSL. At
some point I start copying *.so files from the already-running Ubuntu. I'm
afraid that this will reduce stability. Any opinions?

> Jan.
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