XO as standalone dev system

[Chris Ball]

Hi,

   > I've gotta stand with the view that a gizmo with 256MB RAM, 1GB
   > "disk", and a 430MHz x86 is adequate for full system dev.

Everything is possible, just very slowly.

   > Does bootanim pull it's 60MB size freight? That's the only thing
   > that struck my eye in a review of rpms by size.

How did you get the 60M number?  Looking at a build.log:

   bootanim        i386        0.13-0       olpc-joyride       362 k

- Chris.
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Chris Ball   <cjb at laptop.org>