On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 12:15:42AM -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > Hi, Guys: > > I am looking at a way to use a 486 laptop as an AP, and I see significant > advantages to using some derivative of Fedora. If packaging can be kept > the same, things like bash, linux-utils, and modutils can be shared. > > I looked over source-based and embedded distros and the field looks > terribly splintered. It's hard to pick a distro which won't disappear > next week. Also, since most of them are amateurish operations, they > tend towards things like dietlibc or uclibc, busybox, etc. Such approach > is too limiting for my needs. > > I am curious if anyone thought about starting some sort of "Small Server" > fork of Fedora. I figure it's not something that is a pure fantasy, > considering that Spot manages Aurora all by himself. Come to think of it, > what forks and derivatives of Fedora do we know? Some time ago you could pretty easily re-compile a very small subset of packages and leave out lots of addon libs via rpm flags. Not sure if selinux and a few other libs have changed this now, but maybe with mach such recompiles can now be automated easily. greetings, Florian La Roche
