OS upgrades are painful

[Jim Gettys]

> yes good question!
> why doesnt the devlopment build have GCC, rpm, cvs and many other
> needed tools? Or are we too fearful to confront 512 mb is NOT enough
> storage?

Heh.

We packaged and ran gcc and friends on iPAQ's with 32-64 meg of flash.

We do want space for educational content available, so filling the flash
is not a great thing.

I think it would be a great idea to build an image that can be used on a
USB key or SD card with a much larger set of developer tools.

Personally, however, when doing development on the iPAQ, I found it
easiest to mount an NFS file system from a much faster machine, and do
my development on that fast machine, and then run the binaries on the 


                                         - Jim


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Jim Gettys
One Laptop Per Child