Diskless VIA EPIA with GUI

This will work for 1G or 2G CF.

See

If you need a *real* embedded linux system look at linux embedded distros (try with google). If not you can use almost every linux distro that surely can run between

1GB to 2GB, BTW have you seen DSL linux ? HTH

Actually, size is not that big a problem. We can put most of it in 1G, and a really stripped down KDE on 512M. But 1G and 2G CFs are so cheap now, it doesn't make sense to flight it. The problem is with write cycles. The MLC (multi level cells) flash are much easier to wear out. You CANNOT just run it like a hard disk, which most standard distro would do. We boot from a CF (in 20 seconds BTW) to KDE and run the CF read-only. See the rest below and comments/suggestions are welcome:

Sagaert Johan napisa³(a):

Small Distro you have to build on your own. BusyBox +uC + Buildroot and all what you want is very small... 4MB or smth...

Krzysztof

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But why? 32MB CF is less than $5 each. 1G is less than $30. I am sure you can find something reasonable between 32M and 1G.

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