I think there are some minimalist distributions, a la Puppy Linux and Knoppix that can be installed on a small USB/Flash drive and can be customized to your needs. That might be a little easier way to go. You will be able to change hardware platforms at will and you won't have to build it from scratch. It will already be there and you can just tweak a couple settings on it and have it boot a basically read-only system that can be reset to defaults every time the machine reboots. Chris
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Jim_Peterson <jim.sokytec...@gmail.com>wrote: > > Hey Y'all! > > I'm going to do a custom OS for our library, and I figure the best way > to get what we need is to make it myself. Since the stations this is > going on only have to be able to render a web page w/Flash, JavaScript > and Java, all we really need is a hardware OS and a browser. I'll > likely go with Firefox as a browser, and these machines will have no > Internet access at all - only internal network. I'm not worried about > a minimalist approach to the OS, but the ITX machines this is going on > will have an Atom processor, 1GB RAM, onboard video, an internal 8GB > CF card for a hard drive, and be fanless; essentially a solid-state > computer that might draw 30 Watts at a full load. > > So, picking the brains of you who have been doing this longer than I, > and not to start a Flamefest, which would be easier? Keep in mind that > I am not afraid of the command line, but do remember that I have never > started with this little before! > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
