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I've recently dusted off my original RPi that'd been collecting dust, installed the lite[1] non-X raspbian distro, and plan to see how long I can survive with i
by wepple 10y ago
I've recently dusted off my original RPi that'd been collecting dust, installed the lite[1] non-X raspbian distro, and plan to see how long I can survive with it as my sole desktop at home, using my phone when I desperately need to check in with peoples cat and breakfast photos.
[1] I remember when 'lite' was 1.44mb, not 2.5gb
- clappski 10y agoIt does come with thousands of packages still installed. Check out the Arch distro, that should be much smaller.
- creshal 10y agoEven without X, Raspbian ships the whole debian package development stack by default. That's over a hundred megabytes for GCC and co. – which makes sense for its intended role as teaching device. Edit: Also, it ships with 100+ MiB worth of kernel drivers.