Regular Debian with Fewer Packages
I need to dig into how these are created. A minimal debian install, with nothing besides the base, requires more than is needed. For example, it installs aptitude. While nice, its not necessary. And docs, those are of course nice, but not necessary.
And what about installing the base to a compressed image, using squashfs? That would be awesome. It could be merged with unionfs so that part of it could handle package installs. Interesting idea.
The official main, contrib and non-free package repositories are huge, close to 20,000 packages. For mindeb, I would like to trim this down to as close to 1000 packages.
Note: the packages themselves won’t be changed, it will just be a subset. Why bother? Well it will make it easier to navigate, search, and choose packages, IMHO.
These are a few that I know of:
* Voyage Linux - primarily focused on wi-fi
* Emdebian - primarily focused on ARM?
Debian has almost 20,000 packages in their repositories, but many of them do the same thing. I’ve been thinking about making a distribution that has a smaller subset of packages.