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On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:41:54 +0800 |
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> Andrew Lowe <agl@×××××××.au> wrote: |
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>> On 08/29/12 11:35, Michael Mol wrote: |
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>> > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Andrew Lowe <agl@×××××××.au> |
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>> >> Hi all, |
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>> >> Anyone got any suggestions for a lightweight server |
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>> >> distro for an old motherboard? I've got one of the VIA mini-ITX |
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>> >> boards, SP13000, and want to whack something light onto it. It |
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>> >> will be working as a file/media server and will be headless, hence |
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>> >> will be fiddled via ssh. Obviously there are the usual suspects, |
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>> >> debian, centos, but does anyone have any recommendations viv a vis |
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>> >> a stripped down distro, sort of like Lubuntu is to Ubuntu? |
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>> >> Any thoughts greatly appreciated, |
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> There's also DamnSmallLinux but if you ask me that's going too far to |
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> the other extreme. Yeah, it fits inside 50M but cripes, it has to use |
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> weird package management to do it. |
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> If not FreeBSD, then something Arch-based is probably your best step 1. |
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> Arch is a bit like *buntu in many ways, once you've decided to go that |
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> route, there's not really much difference between all the variants. |
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> It's not the base that's resource heavy, it's KDE and Gnome. |
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> Alan McKinnon |
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> alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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Although, if DSL *isn't* too far in the tiny direction, it's a bit |
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much of a desktop oriented system to tweak for headless use, when a |
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large part of that work was already done... TinyCore and MicroCore are |
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pretty much a bare minimal desktop and a bare minimal CLI only setup, |
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respectively, though they have very similar packaging setups to DSL. |
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Poison [BLX] |
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Joshua M. Murphy |