[oe] [Angstrom-devel] RFC: Add ipkg to minimal image

Rod Whitby rod at whitby.id.au
Tue Dec 4 01:07:51 CET 2007


Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> There is also helloworld-image, which I created to show a minimal
> Linux "system" consisting of kernel + "helloworld" application running
> as init./
> 
> For minimal, it depends on the MACHINE I would say, but the naming
> "minimal" is wrong. Minimal in what way?
> A machine which has a console should not need an SSH server in minimal image.
> 
> It would be wiser to indicate purpose ("console") instead of size ("minimal").
> 
> Maybe "headless" is a better name, for an image that has no input
> method, whereas "console" means "console-shell-access".

+1 from me.

-- Rod





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