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!
I'd go with a minimal server distro to start, then add Xorg and a browser on top of that. A source-based distro's source code will eat up a lot of your 8GBs of space. -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
