Ole Juul
Veteran Member
Two basic questions, and a rant:
1- I've been searching for the size of the Raspbian operating system. What is it?
2- What smaller alternatives are there?
I ask the first question here because a hour's search hasn't brought the answer. I started downloading Raspbian almost 4 hours ago and if it is anywhere near the size of most Linux distros, I'm expecting it to take another 4 hours. Also, it appears that most Pi people only can associate the word "size" with "you need a minimum of 4GB". So, since this is a computing type question, I'm asking it here rather than on the RPi forum. Perhaps it should be under humour, but it's actually a tragicomedy. (That's my rant.)
I don't plan to put a monitor on this thing. Partly because it uses the modern HDMI and none of my big pile of monitors supports that (let alone my KVM). The RCA video capable monitors I have are too clunky to bring upstairs where I want this thing. Which brings the second question into focus.
Isn't there some smaller OS that can run on a RPi? Ideally something like regular basic Debian (227MB). Even if I had to attach a monitor to get this thing configured for SSH login, I wouldn't mind. Just give me something that doesn't include every X library ever written and can be downloaded in less that 8 hours. Yes, definitely less than that.
1- I've been searching for the size of the Raspbian operating system. What is it?
2- What smaller alternatives are there?
I ask the first question here because a hour's search hasn't brought the answer. I started downloading Raspbian almost 4 hours ago and if it is anywhere near the size of most Linux distros, I'm expecting it to take another 4 hours. Also, it appears that most Pi people only can associate the word "size" with "you need a minimum of 4GB". So, since this is a computing type question, I'm asking it here rather than on the RPi forum. Perhaps it should be under humour, but it's actually a tragicomedy. (That's my rant.)
I don't plan to put a monitor on this thing. Partly because it uses the modern HDMI and none of my big pile of monitors supports that (let alone my KVM). The RCA video capable monitors I have are too clunky to bring upstairs where I want this thing. Which brings the second question into focus.
Isn't there some smaller OS that can run on a RPi? Ideally something like regular basic Debian (227MB). Even if I had to attach a monitor to get this thing configured for SSH login, I wouldn't mind. Just give me something that doesn't include every X library ever written and can be downloaded in less that 8 hours. Yes, definitely less than that.