[Space] How do the big ones do it?

I've been trying hard to get a lightweight, low footprint and very minimal Arch installation. Now, after I installed ALSA, Xorg, and Gnome, cleared the package cache, I ended up at 2.3 GiB of files in "/".
For comparism I just installed a Fedora Core 11 from a live disk, with Gnome, and I think there's much more "hidden" packages than I have, yet it's only 2.2 GiB.
I still wonder how distributions like Damn Small Linux go as low as 50 MB, while X is about 40 MB and the Kernel is surely over 10 MB, too
How low can I go?
What can I do to achieve my goal of lightweightness?
I don't fear of using advanced techniques, as long as there's good information about it, because I like to learn

Flippeh wrote:while X is about 40 MB and the Kernel is surely over 10 MB, too
Well, you can change the compression used by the kernel to optimize for size over speed. Then there's the optional stuff within the kernel that can be stripped away for a highly-minimal base system.
I'm fairly certain that Arch ships more packages with X than the 'big names' (feel free to correct if I'm wrong here), which set the system up themselves and can skip anything they don't need (not to mention the huge number of patches a distro like Ubuntu adds to their system).
You can even use certain switches within GCC that compile for small sizes over raw speed.
Oh, and yeah, Damn Small wouldn't use Gnome .

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