Tips on reducing memory and running Linux on a flash device

<p>

David Härdeman has contributed two really valuable guides to my <a href =
"http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/">Debian on NSLU2 site</a>
that will be of great interest to many NSLU2 users:

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<ul>

<li>The first guide is for people running Linux on a flash device, such as
a USB flash stick.  Since flash only supports a limited number of writes,
it is important to reduce the wear and tear on the underlying flash device.
David's guide gives <a href =
"http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/linux-on-flash/">some practical
advice</a> of how to achieve this.</li>

<li>The second guide gives a few tips and tricks that can be used to <a
href = "http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/reducing-memory/">reduce the
amount of RAM</a> a system uses.  This is particularly interesting to NSLU2
users since 32&nbsp;MB of RAM is not a lot.</li>

</ul>

<p>

These guides mention Debian but most of the advice applies to other NSLU2
firmware flavours and to Linux in general.

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