Fedora Mini

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Wed Apr 6 07:20:25 UTC 2005


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.
> 
> 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?


Have you looked at the RULE project?

-sv





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