On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Bob Miller wrote: <snip removed="jim beard's wifi access distro idea> > > I'll riff on your idea. I would like to see a package with the > self-describing name, Debian Appliance Kit. It would be an easy way > to build a debian-based subset distro for Linux appliances. Use the > debian net/cd distribution and update method, but rather than pile 4 > Gb of crap onto the disk, just get a couple of Mb of basic stuff plus > one application that does MP3s or wireless gateways or point of sale > terminals or whatever appliance you need.
you could start with the 'compact' installation set, the problem (if you think it's a problem) is that you are dealing with a field of vastly varying Hardware platforms and needs. It might pay off to set up some sort of configurator service to which you would feed the h/w specs and select an application and it would spew out a a kernel and package set for that combo, but setting up a single distro that could fill all those niches... http://www.efn.org/~laprice ( Community, Cooperation, Consensus http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but learn from them.(carpe fructus ludi) http://allie.office.efn.org/phpwiki/index.php?OregonPublicNetworking >
