Fedora Mini

[Florian La Roche]

On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 12:15:42AM -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?

Some time ago you could pretty easily re-compile a very small subset of
packages and leave out lots of addon libs via rpm flags. Not sure
if selinux and a few other libs have changed this now, but maybe with
mach such recompiles can now be automated easily.

greetings,

Florian La Roche