[Novalug] Need embedded distro recommendation; also possibly free parts to be had

[Bryan J Smith]

On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 19:19 -0400, Joshua Newton wrote:
> Um... all good distros, I'm sure, but I don't want to *develop* an
> embedded distro.  I want to *use* one.  That means not pulling Fedora or
> whichever out of the box and fiddling about with tmpfs and symlinks and
> figuring out what bits of /var need to be nonvolatile and that.

So you want a distro to decide all that for you (?).  I'm missing
something here.

I mean, there's no "universal installer" for, say, any given ARM
platform, because there's no "BIOS" or other "standard."  Embedded is
about a few details with the boot/storage (typically via uboot, but
there are other options) and going from there.

If you just want a small x86 distro for x86, like a Via C3 or C7 or AMD
Geode NX (mobile Athlon turned embedded, not to be confused with the
Geode GX/LX which is different) or Intel Atom, then any x86 distro will
do.  Stick with your preferred.


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