On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 00:15 -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. Have you tried/contacted the rule project? http://rule-project.org/ I have not used it since 2003 and Redhat 9, when we finally ditched the last of our 166/200Mhz 64meg PCs. > > 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? > > -- Pete > -- David Mohring <heretic@xxxxxxxxxx>
