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From: James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [Offtopic] Lightweight server distro for an old motherboard
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 18:16:57 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20120830T201251-756@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 503D8503.3010906@wht.com.au

Andrew Lowe <agl <at> wht.com.au> writes:


> 	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?

embedded gentoo is way cool! and very cutting edge.

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/

gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org 
is where to join and post your questions.


Otherwise, for performance reasons, I'd go with open-embedded.

hth,
James



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-08-30 18:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-29  2:57 [gentoo-user] [Offtopic] Lightweight server distro for an old motherboard Andrew Lowe
2012-08-29  3:35 ` Michael Mol
2012-08-29  3:41   ` Andrew Lowe
2012-08-29 12:11     ` Peter Humphrey
2012-08-29 13:24     ` Alan McKinnon
2012-08-29 14:13       ` Joshua Murphy
2012-08-29 11:53   ` v_2e
2012-08-29  4:42 ` kwkhui
2012-08-29  4:53   ` Andrew Lowe
2012-08-29 13:20     ` Alan McKinnon
2012-08-29 13:37       ` Michael Mol
2012-08-30 18:16 ` James [this message]
2012-08-30 18:37   ` [gentoo-user] " Andrew Lowe

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