[LUGSB] Stripped down linux

[Jonathan Dehan]

slitaz is tiny, 25 mb iirc, and it comes with firefox and abiword and some
other programs, runs entirely from ram (though ends up requiring 200mb of
ram if you do that iirc). Its fast, customizable with its own package
manager and minimal gui dialog boxes for making your own apps / giving a gui
frontend to console applications.
slax is cool too, but try out slitaz it is slick

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 4:09 AM, Sumit Taraphdar
<sumit.taraphdar at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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