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treehouse
February 11th, 2007, 07:20 AM
So I'm building an mp3 jukebox of sorts, and I heard core thrown out for a super lightweight and fast distro to use and I wanted to hear if there was anything else I should consider? It looks like I'll be sticking it on a 233mhz unknown RAM. I'm looking to get it to load up and start working as fast as possible after I hit the 'on' button.
bluenova
February 11th, 2007, 07:31 AM
Perhaps this will be useful:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/MP3-Box-HOWTO.html
treehouse
February 11th, 2007, 07:39 AM
Perhaps this will be useful:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/MP3-Box-HOWTO.html

I'm probly going to try one of those eventually. What I'm doing is probly going to sit on a shelf at work. Thanks.
kerry_s
February 11th, 2007, 08:03 AM
For small you can't beat DSL 50mb-> http://damnsmalllinux.org/
treehouse
February 11th, 2007, 08:15 AM
You know, this begins to beg the question...does small mean it'll boot faster?

EDIT: SmallER mean faster? Suffixes are important!
PurplePenguin
February 11th, 2007, 09:23 AM
GeeXboX (http://geexbox.org/en/index.html) is a distro that turns an old computer into a media centre. Requirements mention a P2400 as a recommended minimum, although any Pentium should work.

Puppy Linux (http://www.puppylinux.org/user/viewpage.php?page_id=1) is my favorite tiny linux distro. Really easy to use. :)
RAV TUX
February 11th, 2007, 02:22 PM
uL (Microlinux) (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=352231)
slimdog360
February 11th, 2007, 05:26 PM
wolvix http://wolvix.org/
RAV TUX
February 11th, 2007, 06:25 PM
wolvix http://wolvix.org/Wolvix Cub is small,...Wolvix Hunter is awesome
jake3988
February 11th, 2007, 06:39 PM
Linux from scratch. Though, that's probably too complicated.

Gentoo can install a very minimal system if you so choose.

My favorite, and its not even linux, is freebsd. It installs absolutely NOTHING except the OS by default. Only reason I'm not still using it right now is the fact that my dvd-rw usb burner panics the kernel.
RAV TUX
February 11th, 2007, 07:37 PM
Linux from scratch. Though, that's probably too complicated.

Gentoo can install a very minimal system if you so choose.

My favorite, and its not even linux, is freebsd. It installs absolutely NOTHING except the OS by default. Only reason I'm not still using it right now is the fact that my dvd-rw usb burner panics the kernel.

nothing worse then a panicked kernel....well on second thought yes there is:popcorn: