On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:41:54 +0800 > Andrew Lowe <a...@wht.com.au> wrote: > >> On 08/29/12 11:35, Michael Mol wrote: >> > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Andrew Lowe <a...@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, <snip> > 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. > > 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. > > > > > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan.mckin...@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. -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
