nanogui: Good "minimalist" Linux distro for FB stuff?
Subject:
Re: [nanogui] Good "minimalist" Linux distro for FB stuff?
From:
Yan Seiner ####@####.####
Date:
31 Mar 2008 02:37:00 -0000
Message-Id: <47F04E37.1010906@seiner.com>
Peter Barada wrote:
>> Good evening all!
>>
>> Does anyone here have comments about good (or bad) minimalist Linux
>> distros, on which to intall a Framebuffer-configured Nano-X project? I
>> want to build a mini-ATX Linux box on which will run my
>> Framebuffer-based project, and I want to have the install as
>> trimmed-down as possible (I just need Framebuffer and network support,
>> really). To begin with it'll be installed on one of those "flash" IDE
>> units (that hold 512MB) but I'm hoping longer-term to build a PXE image
>> for network transfer.
>>
>> I /could/ fight with my usual choice of distro (SuSE) and see what I can
>> strip out to get it down to a sensible size ... but I figure that this
>> must be a task that others here have battled with.
>>
>> Any comments?
>>
>> Kris.
>>
>
> You could try LTIB, look at www.bitshrine.org, or pull down some of
> Freescale's Linux BSPs (most based on LTIB). They're pretty minimal,
> and have qtopia, as well as nanox in them that you can select to build
> into your rootfs.
>
>
openwrt.org
angstrom.org
Why reinvent the wheel?
--Yan
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