On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:41:54 +0800
> Andrew Lowe <agl@wht.com.au> wrote:
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>> On 08/29/12 11:35, Michael Mol wrote:
>> > 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,
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> There's also DamnSmallLinux but if you ask me that's going too far to
> the other extreme. Yeah, it fits inside 50M but cripes, it has to use
> weird package management to do it.
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> If not FreeBSD, then something Arch-based is probably your best step 1.
> Arch is a bit like *buntu in many ways, once you've decided to go that
> route, there's not really much difference between all the variants.
> It's not the base that's resource heavy, it's KDE and Gnome.
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> Alan McKinnon
> alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
Although, if DSL *isn't* too far in the tiny direction, it's a bit
much of a desktop oriented system to tweak for headless use, when a
large part of that work was already done... TinyCore and MicroCore are
pretty much a bare minimal desktop and a bare minimal CLI only setup,
respectively, though they have very similar packaging setups to DSL.
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Joshua M. Murphy
Lightweight server distro for an old motherboard
