[LUGSB] Stripped down linux

[Sumit Taraphdar]

I am not sure of the size of the distro you are looking for. But if you are
okay with approx 200MB, Slax would be a minimalist distro with excellent
hardware support (I am using it). You can strip it down further as you may
wish.

~Sumit

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 10:59 PM, Alan Macleod <fergus4 at bellatlantic.net>wrote:

> 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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