[ale] looking for a very lightweight distro

[jrtroberts]

On 07/14/10 22:13, Richard Bronosky wrote:
> You can download a 10MB (!!!) ISO of TinyCore Linux to run in a
> VirtualBox VM. It boots in less than a second! Once booted you can use
> its built it package manager to install a few packages and then choose
> "Burn USB Drive" to create a thumb drive you can boot from. I would
> suggest pulling the drives out to save power. Using a P2 is likely to
> cost a lot more in energy in 1 year than you would spend on an SBC.
>    
After looking into wireless routers that will run dd-wrt, I am thinking 
it might be better to go with something like the Linksys E series 
routers, probably the E2000 or E3000.  This will upgrade the wireless b 
to n and give me the gigabit connection I might need in the future.
Thoughts?  Not that the linux box is not a valid option, but if I can 
get a network upgrade out of the deal it seems like a better choice.

I will; however, take a look at the distros listed in this thread and 
become more familiar with them.  And I might even setup the linux box 
with 2 or more nics just for fun.

> On 7/14/10, Doug McNash<dmcnash at charter.net>  wrote:
>    
>> I run voyage (http://linux.voyage.hk) on a 128Mb Sokris net4801 as a cups
>> server.  It is Debian based so you can apt-get what you need.
>>
>> --
>> doug mcnash
>>
>> ---- jrtroberts<jrtroberts at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>      
>>> I am looking for a very lightweight distro, something to run on a P2 era
>>> computer maybe a bit earlier, It only needs to function as a router.  So
>>> I need to use IP Tables to route between maybe two - five networks, My
>>> sisters lan/internet connection in her APT and my father's backup
>>> server(on a separate VLAN) in the house proper.  I am hoping that my
>>> father has an old box that has room for 2 nic cards.  That seems to be
>>> the cheapest route at the moment.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Joshua
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