Thank you...Daneil and John... My device configuration is as follows. CPU : intel Celeron M 1.60 Ghz DIMM : W/DDR 1GB ECC IDE(Primary Master) : Compact Flash (1 GB) IDE(Primary Master) : Compact Flash (256 GB)
My confusion is that if it is possible to customize the CentOS for my application.
Regards Vishak V Kurup
-----Original Message----- From: centos-devel-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-devel-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of John Summerfield Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 6:22 PM To: The CentOS developers mailing list. Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] Using Centos as embedded linux.
Daniel de Kok wrote:
On 1/10/08, Vishak V. Kurup vishak.kurup@nestgroup.net wrote:
I am newbie to Centos. I would like to know if it is possible to use centos on embedded devices. Has any one done any thing similar? Please do reply with any comments �
That completely depends on the application. Currently a minimal system is fairly large (~400-~500MB IIRC). This may be OK for some embedded devices, and one or two orders of magnitude too large for other embedded devices.
I didn't think it was that small, unless you're talking about the amount of RAM needed to run recent anacondas:-)
If you need something much smaller (or a non-supported platform like ARM), I'd suggest looking at Busybox or a BSD operating system.
Debian is very popular on ARM; I think I read it has more Linux system on ARM than on IA32!.
The linksys wireless router, wrt54g runs Linux and there are alternative firmwares for it. Look for openwrt for info on that.