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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [Offtopic] Lightweight server distro for an old motherboard
From: Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Andrew Lowe <agl@wht.com.au> wrote:
> Hi all,
> Anyone got any suggestions for a lightweight server distro for an
> old motherboard? I've got one of the VIA mini-ITX boards, SP13000, and want
> to whack something light onto it. It will be working as a file/media server
> and will be headless, hence will be fiddled via ssh. Obviously there are the
> usual suspects, debian, centos, but does anyone have any recommendations viv
> a vis a stripped down distro, sort of like Lubuntu is to Ubuntu?
>
> Any thoughts greatly appreciated,
Cripes, you're asking in gentoo-user. Of course someone's going to
suggest Gentoo.
Let it be me...and I'll explain:
1) You can put something like -Os or -O2 in your CFLAGS, whichever
helps your performance case better.
2) You can target your CFLAGS to your exact processor, allowing
generated machine code to be as efficient as possible on your CPU
(which you'll need, if it's a low-power CPU!)
3) You don't have to compile on the mini-ITX board; you can
cross-compile and use binpkgs to install.
4) You can use USE flags to strip out (virtually) any and every
feature you don't use, reducing both your code size, load and
execution time.
If you want to do something lightweight, there's not much better you
can do than with Gentoo.
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