[ale] looking for a very lightweight distro

Richard Bronosky Richard at Bronosky.com
Wed Jul 14 22:13:23 EDT 2010


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.

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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