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Date:Mon Mar 16 14:03:01 2001 
Subject:Re: (Still) Off topic 
From:jonathan . cunningham 
Volume-ID:1010316.01 

Stephen Isard wrote:
>My favorite mini-distribution is mulinux (http://sunsite.dk/mulinux/).
>You can actually run it from a single floppy, but you can also clone it


Thanks for this. I'll look at the site today, and try it out over
the weekend.

>I have recently recompiled poplog to run under both mulinux and Monkey.
>Ved works fine in a console window on the 486.  The reason that
(snip)

>I'm now in the process of throwing enough stuff away to compress a
>usable subset of poplog onto a couple of floppies.  I'm probably not the
>best person to be doing this, since I haven't kept up with all the
>recent poplog developments, and I don't always know what it is that I'm
>throwing away.  Maybe once I've made a start, others will join in and do
>it better.  I wasn't going to mention the whole business in public until
>I had done it, but since you asked, I couldn't resist. I'd be happy to
>give you what I've got at the moment, on the understanding that it is a
>very incomplete job.


Yes please. If/when I get the old machine working with mulinux (or
something) I'd be very happy to try out whatever you boil poplog down
to -- I see no reason why something very useable shouldn't be able
to fit on a couple of floppies.

Any feedback will go direct to you or elsewhere as you see fit.

Jonathan