[LUGSB] Stripped down linux

[Alan Macleod]

Ben,

Thanks for your response...

By stripped down I mean zero to few apps in the distro but still have
hardware support for network, sound, video. My "appliance" apps have GUI's
so I need x windows or some light weight equivalent.

I know puppy has good hardware support so I thought I would just remove all
the apps I could. Maybe change the window manager to something even simpler
then what comes with it...perhaps a variant of black box.

My "appliance" is just using some old motherboards to run various apps built
on the rebol programming language.

For example one App I wrote for the firehouse (I'm a NYC Firefighter) is a
small mapping program that we can input a four digit "Box Number" (The code
# for the closet cross street to the emergency incident with an alarm box.)
and the map will zoom into the location and printout directions. 

I use puppy for it now but if there is a power failure it will not boot
properly. I usually hangs and requests manual restart of xwin. 

I have other firehouses asking for the program for their response areas but
it just is not fool proof enough. If I'm not around and it goes down it
stays down until I get back to work....

I read of someone using a minimal distro with x but no window manager to run
firefox as a kiosk. Firefox would auto start with no need for a window
manager. That's what I would prefer..

-Alan 

-----Original Message-----
From: lugsb-bounces at fsl.cs.sunysb.edu
[mailto:lugsb-bounces at fsl.cs.sunysb.edu] On Behalf Of Benjamin Kudria
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 9:24 PM
To: Linux Users Group at Stony Brook
Subject: Re: [LUGSB] Stripped down linux

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:33, Alan Macleod <fergus4 at bellatlantic.net>
wrote:
> I've looked at Puppy Linux. I think you can strip it of any apps not
needed
> but I have not had time to really get into it.

There's some lists here:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Minimal_Linux_distros
and here:
http://www.linuxlinks.com/Distributions/Mini_Distributions/

You should clarify what you mean by "stripped down" - not a lot
installed by default?  Minimal runtime footprint?  Depending on what
you wish to accomplish, your choices will change.

I'm curious, what sort of appliance are you planning to build?

-Ben Kudria

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