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Andrew Lowe <agl <at> wht.com.au> writes: |
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> Anyone got any suggestions for a lightweight server distro for an old |
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> motherboard? I've got one of the VIA mini-ITX boards, SP13000, and want |
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> to whack something light onto it. It will be working as a file/media |
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> server and will be headless, hence will be fiddled via ssh. Obviously |
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> there are the usual suspects, debian, centos, but does anyone have any |
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> recommendations viv a vis a stripped down distro, sort of like Lubuntu |
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> is to Ubuntu? |
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embedded gentoo is way cool! and very cutting edge. |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/ |
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gentoo-embedded@l.g.o |
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is where to join and post your questions. |
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Otherwise, for performance reasons, I'd go with open-embedded. |
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hth, |
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James |
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