[aklug] More questions about assembling Linux

Two more questions:

1) Is there a good, tiny drop-in shell that a guy could use instead of
bash (for a very small Linux system)? The bash binary seems to be rather
large (700K+) plus all the configuration files that come with it; also
it seems to have a lot of dependencies that aren't strictly necessary
(like ncurses) and also dynamically loads some other libraries during
runtime (to my suprise).

I guess Bash probably has to be installed anyway, for most applications,
but I am still curious if there is something more lightweight.

2) Is udev a required component, or can you just copy in a set of static
dev files? If static works, are these static files part of a package on
the Internet somewhere?

Obviously udev would be good for most applications, but I was thinking I
could get by without it on a tiny Linux system inside a VM.

-- 
Christopher Howard
http://frigidcode.com
http://theologia.indicium.us
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