Date:	Sun, 9 Oct 94 18:31:17 JST
From:	Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp>
To:	C867BUC AT SEMOVM DOT BITNET, buyukisik_o_f AT ae DOT ge DOT com
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Moving to Linux -- questions

This doesn't really belong on the DJGPP list; try comp.os.linux.help,
or perhaps comp.os.linux.admin.  Get the Linux HOW-TOs from
//sunsite.unc.edu/pub/linux/docs/howto or something like that.  Get
the readmes for Slackware or other distributions available in
.../packages/slackware or something like that.

Having said that, there are a couple of points I can contribute.

BTW, the gist of a recent discussion on c.o.l.admin is that UMSDOS is
*not* appreciably slower than the minix, iafs, or (nowadays preferred)
ext2 file systems.  However, I shudder at the idea that MSDOS can get
at my Linux filesystem; I really am much happier having it safe on
another partition.  Also, if you are running MSDOS, you have *no*
security against intruders on your Linux file system.

Here are the most important directories (in a quick edit of a du) on
my Linux system.  Note that /usr/lib includes pile of TeX stuff.

2405    /var
11916   /usr/bin
26955   /usr/lib
5271    /usr/src/linux-1.0.9
944     /usr/include
542     /etc
801     /sbin
215     /boot
15      /dev
846     /lib
===================================
49910   total (in KBytes)

This includes a pretty full development system, as well as groff and
ghostscript and such.  On top of this, if you don't use X you really
ought to have 16MB - total RAM available for swap; with X, I'm
uncomfortable with less than 32MB - total RAM.  You also should leave
another 10MB for temporaries.

Two directories you might be able to do away with:
15312   /usr/X11
10240   /usr/lib/emacs

Conservatively, I'd say that reserving 80--100 MB for Linux binaries
and system functions should be plenty, assuming that you are really
willing to leave the man pages and other docs on the CD-ROM.  With a
lot of care you should be able to shoehorn it into 50MB.

    --Steve

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