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Posted Apr 17, 2008 22:12 UTC (Thu) by AnswerGuy (subscriber, #1256)
In reply to: An LWN.net Distribution List update by pabs
Parent article: An LWN.net Distribution List update

I was peripherally involved with the development of the LNX-BBC (and the Linuxcare BBC which
was the brainchild of Duncan MacKinnon when he and I worked there).

So far as I know all of the core parties have been off doing their own things, pursuing their
various careers, being involved with family life, etc.

There is no shortage of compact ditributions which will fit into the "bootable business card"
format.  There are even BBC media in DVD densities which I think will fit a normal 650MB ISO
image in biz card format
(or pretty close to it).  I know that the mini-DVD blanks store 1.4GB. That means that a
normal Ubuntu disc can fit in small form factor on most reasonably recent equipment.

Additionally BIOS support for booting from USB thumb drives has improved considerably ... and
the capacity of those has gone through the roof (I have a relatively cheap 8GB thumb drive
that I use most).

So I can understand why the team have gone off and just let this one languish as a relic of
the past.

JimD


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