[CentOS-devel] Re: CentOS-5 on i586
John Summerfield
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Mon Apr 7 23:42:37 UTC 2008
Karanbir Singh wrote:
> Scott Silva wrote:
>> But is an Enterprise distro really the right fit for something like
>> the OLPC project? Or the embedded market?
>
> yes, its the perfect fit.
Did you read the specs?
http://laptop.org/laptop/hardware/specs.shtml
CentOS5 in 256 Mbytes? 1 Gbyte "disk?"
(I don't think the instruction set is quite as advertised there, see the
datasheet it links to).
>
>> I see something like Ubuntu or Debian being a better fit for the low
>> end machines.>
>
> No, you dont want to redo a port every 6 months for the embedded
> markets. The whole point is fire-and-forget capability for those sort of
> roles.
http://laptop.org/en/laptop/software/specs.shtml
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John
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