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On 08/31/12 02:16, James wrote: |
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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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Thanks all for the suggestions. I ended up caving and going Gentoo |
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again. I remembered that the original install, which took ages to |
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"emerge world", had freevo, mysql, X, subversion and a lot of other |
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stuff. This time it's just nzbget and file serving. The thought of |
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"learning" another distro also didn't exactly excite me so it was back |
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to familiar territory. |
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Andrew |
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