[mythtv-users] Minimizing a Distribution

[Mark Petryk]

Gentoo, yes!  Let's do it!

Ken VanDine wrote:
> I am for this too.  I would love to have a small, light weight install for my 
> media center.  I do not have a need for a desktop attacehd to my 61 inch TV :-)
> 
> My vote would be to base it on gentoo and create a "live cd" for the install.  
> Nothing to compile.
> 
> --Ken
> 
> 
> Quoting Micah Morton <micah at oregontech.net>:
> 
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>>I'm voting we all get together and make a MythOS distro of linux. :) It
>>would be everything we want, and nothing we dont. :) Who's with me!?
>>
>>--Micah
>>
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>>>I am in the process of booting MythTV on a Mini-ITX with Compact Flash
>>>boot drive.
>>>
>>>I have Linux in about 20 MB (with ssh/nfs and a whole bunch of other
>>>stuff). I have X in about another 30 MB (probably much less with a
>>>cramfs).
>>>
>>>Boot time is really fast.
>>>
>>>The only problem I have had is minimizing QT and MySQL, they are both
>>>nasty disk size pigs.  QT does something funky stuff loading the MySQL
>>>libraries.
>>>
>>>The last error I am able to debug is a relocation error on a MySQL
>>>library (I assume from QT).
>>>
>>>Has anyone seen this error?  Or better yet has anyone tried to minimize
>>>a distribution, so I don't have to re-invent the wheel.
>>>
>>>Second question, is MySQL really necessary?  I really question the need
>>>for a database with today's processor.  The bloat of code vs the "time
>>>savings".  With work projects, I always wonder if a flat text file isn't
>>>sufficent (hell we aren't cataloging Walmart's inventory).
>>>
>>>Thanks for any pointers
>>>
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